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Definition of Octofid
1. a. Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.
Definition of Octofid
1. Adjective. (botany) Cleft or separated into eight segments. ¹
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Definition of Octofid
1. cleft into eight segments [adj]
Medical Definition of Octofid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Octofid
Literary usage of Octofid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to by Peter Mark Roget (1858)
"octofid. DECIMATION. V. To decimate. Adj. Decimal, tenth, tithe. DUODECIMAL,
twelfth. THOUSAND, chiliad. MYRIAD, a lac. ..."
2. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"The calyx ú octofid ; the petals eight; the feeds long and hairy with a train.
On the death of Oliver Cromwell he wrote fome heroic ..."
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