trifid

American  

[trahy-fid] / ˈtraɪ fɪd /

adjective

1. cleft into three parts or lobes.

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trifid British  

/ ˈtraɪfɪd /

adjective

1. divided or split into three parts or lobes

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Other Word Forms

• subtrifid
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of trifid

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

Example Sentences

Canes long, numerous, slender, ash-gray, reddish-brown at nodes with heavy bloom; nodes enlarged; internodes short; tendrils intermittent, short, trifid or bifid.

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 rough, long, thick, dark brown; nodes enlarged; internodes long; tendrils intermittent, long, trifid or bifid, persistent.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.

Canes long, few, thick, flattened, bright reddish-brown; nodes enlarged, flattened; tendrils intermittent, rarely continuous, bifid or trifid.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.

Rootless; leaves cleft ¼–½ their length, the lobes ovate, subequal, acute or obtuse, entire, or gemmiparous ones subdentate; involucral leaves trifid; perianth oval-oblong or subcylindric.—On rocks in high mountain regions, and northward.

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