trifid

[trahy-fid]

adjective

1. cleft into three parts or lobes.

trifid

/ ˈtraɪfɪd /

adjective

1. divided or split into three parts or lobes

Other Word Forms

• subtrifid adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of trifid¹

First recorded in 1745–55, trifid is from the Latin word trifidus split in three. See tri-, -fid

Word History and Origins

Origin of trifid¹

C18: from Latin trifidus from _tri- + findere to split

Example Sentences

Leaves.—Radical leaf remote from the stem; trifid; the segments serrate.

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Male calyx is trifid, the corolla three-petalled, with five stamens; the female calyx is quinquefid, the corolla divided into three segments, and furnished with three stamens.

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It was a kind of Rhus; the dark-green, reticulated, trifid leaf—naked and deeply veined above and covered with down beneath,—was quite typical.

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Some of the filaments are bifid, trifid, and even branched.

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Canes long, numerous, slender, dark reddish-brown; nodes enlarged, flattened; internodes long; tendrils intermittent, trifid or bifid.

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