trifid

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Etymology

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From Latin trifidus, from tri- (three) + -fidus, form of findere (to split).

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trifid (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Divided into three lobes.
    • 1850, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany, page 1058:
      The leafits are four or five pairs, with a trifid terminal leafit.

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