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

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

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