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Definition of Trifid
1. Adjective. Divided into three lobes. "Trifid petals"
Definition of Trifid
1. a. Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.
Definition of Trifid
1. Adjective. (botany) Divided into three lobes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trifid
1. divided into three parts [adj]
Medical Definition of Trifid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trifid
Literary usage of Trifid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Stamens exserted ; filamente flatted* the alternate ones deeply trifid, bearing
the anther on the middle filiform segment. ..."
2. Problems in Astrophysics by Agnes Mary Clerke (1903)
"... fineness stretched across the north-west cleft " of the trifid nebula.2 It
reminded him of a cable of the New York and Brooklyn suspension bridge, ..."
3. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by John Sims (1830)
"Style as long as the stamens, slender : Stigma trifid. This plant has flowered
in the greenhouse both in the Edinburgh and Glasgow Botanic Gardens, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1891)
"The cells form a trifid tract (fig. 1) situated towards the Fig. 1. Dorsal view
of an embryo of Sepia, to show the three lines of modified ..."
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