multifid
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From multi- + fid, from Latin findere (“to cleave”).
Adjective[edit]
multifid (not comparable)
- Cleft into many parts or lobes.
- Pseudodoxia Epidemica, by Sir Thomas Browne, 1646:
- For animals multifidous, or such as are digitated or have several divisions in their feet;
- A Student's Text-book of Zoology, by Adam Sedgwick, et al., 1898:
- Helicidae: Land-snails...genital organs generally with a dart and multifid vesicles.
- Phyllanthaceae:
- The style is usually 2-lobed or bifid ... or rarely multifid.
- Pseudodoxia Epidemica, by Sir Thomas Browne, 1646:
