trifid en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *bʰinédti Proto-Italic *findō Latin findō Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Archaic Latin -os Latin -us Latin -fidus Latin trifidusbor. English trifid From Latin trifidus, from tri- (“three”) + -fidus, form of findere (“to split”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Divided into three lobes.
The leafits are four or five pairs, with a trifid terminal leafit.
1850, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany, page 1058:
Coordinates
quadrifid · quinquefid · sexifid · bifid · multifid · octofid · centifidous · duodecimfid · multifidous · sexfid · decemfid · novemfid