Definition of Trifid

1. Adjective. Divided into three lobes. "Trifid petals"

Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Similar to: Divided

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

1. Deeply divided into three parts. (19 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trifid

trifallow
trifallowed
trifallowing
trifallows
trifarious
trifasciated
trifecta
trifectas
triff
triffer
triffest
triffic
triffid
triffids
triffidy
trifid (current term)
trifid beggar-ticks
trifid bur marigold
trifistulary
triflate
triflates
triflation
triflavin
trifle away
trifle with
trifled
trifler
triflers
trifles

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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