trifid
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of trifid
First recorded in 1745–55, trifid is from the Latin word trifidus split in three. See tri-, -fid
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Canes dark brown with light bloom, surface roughened; nodes enlarged, flattened; internodes short; tendrils intermittent, short, bifid or trifid.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
Canes long, thick, dark brown with abundant bloom; nodes much enlarged; internodes long; tendrils intermittent, occasionally continuous, long, bifid, sometimes trifid.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
Some of the filaments are bifid, trifid, and even branched.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Canes long, thick, light brown; nodes enlarged, flattened; tendrils intermittent, bifid or trifid.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
Procumbent, creeping; leaves flattened, ovate-subquadrate, obtuse or retuse; underleaves ovate, distant, free; involucral leaves two, 2-toothed; perianth deeply trifid, the lobes spinose-dentate, mostly shorter than the conspicuous calyptra.—Mountains of N. Eng.
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
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