multifid

American  

[muhl-tuh-fid] / ˈmʌl tə fɪd /

adjective

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

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multifid British  

/ ˈmʌltɪfɪd, mʌlˈtɪfɪdəs /

adjective

1. having or divided into many lobes or similar segments

   a multifid leaf

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Other Word Forms

• multifidly adverb

Etymology

Origin of multifid

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

Example Sentences

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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

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.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various