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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Biology Having many clefts forming lobes: multifid leaves.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having many fissions or divisions; cleft into many parts, lobes, or segments, as certain leaves: chiefly a zoölogical and botanical term.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Cleft into many parts or lobes.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses.

Etymologies

  1. From multi- + -fid, from findere ("to cleave"). (Wiktionary)

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. multifidous
  1. multipartite
  1. pannaria
  1. quadrifid
  1. fidispinalis
  1. multifid

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