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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In botany, cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. botany Cleft or separated into eight segments.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.

Etymologies

  1. octo- + root of Latin findere to split. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Before passing on to the subject of digestion, I may state that I endeavoured to discover, with no success, the functions of the minute octofid processes with which the leaves are studded.”

    Insectivorous Plants

  • “These octofid projections are no doubt homologous with the papillae on the leaves of Drosera rotundifolia.”

    Insectivorous Plants

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