Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, cleft into five segments. See
cleft , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into
five segments .
Etymologies
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quinque- and root of Latin findere, "cleave".
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According to the number ©f thefe divifiens, fuch a leaf is called C L CO called bifid, trifid, quadrifid, quinquefid, multi - fid; or two-cleft, three-cleft, &c. —
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