multifid

[muhl-tuh-fid]

adjective

1. cleft into many parts, divisions, or lobes.

multifid

/ ˈmʌltɪfɪd, mʌlˈtɪfɪdəs /

adjective

1. having or divided into many lobes or similar segments

   a multifid leaf

Other Word Forms

• multifidly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of multifid¹

First recorded in 1745–55, multifid is from the Latin word multifidus divided into many parts. See multi-, -fid

Word History and Origins

Origin of multifid¹

C18: from Latin multifidus, from multus many + findere to split

Example Sentences

Carpels few, stipitate, several-seeded.—Perennial herbs, with palmately multifid radical leaves, the scape bearing a single large yellow flower surrounded by an involucre of a single leaf.

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Shell external, with elongated spire and numerous whorls, aperture generally narrow; male genital duct without multifid vesicles.

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Shell with medium spire, external or partly covered by the mantle; genital aperture below the right posterior tentacle; genital apparatus generally provided with a dart-sac and multifid vesicles.

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Multifarious, in many rows or ranks; Multifid, many-cleft; Multilocular, many-celled; Multiserial, in many rows.

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And the phrases two-cleft, or, in the Latin form, bifid, three-cleft or trifid, four-cleft or quadrifid, five-cleft or quinquefid, etc., or many-cleft, in the Latin form, multifid,—express the number of the Segments, or portions.

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