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.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
- For animals multifidous, or such as are digitated or have several divisions in their feet;
- 1898, Adam Sedgwick et al., A Student's Text-book of Zoology
- Helicidae: Land-snails...genital organs generally with a dart and multifid vesicles.