trifid

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

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.

Coordinate terms

• bifid, quadrifid, quinquefid, sexfid/sexifid, octofid, novemfid, decemfid, duodecimfid, centifidous, multifid/multifidous

Derived terms

• trifid cipher