Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Divided or cleft into three narrow parts or lobes: a trifid tail; a trifid organ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Divided into three lobes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Divided into three parts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. divided into three lobes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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The case of the "trifid" nebula in Sagittarius, investigated by Holden in 1877, is less easily disposed of.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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I had to Google "trifid nebula false color image" to find the original.
Where In The Universe Challenge, Thanksgiving Edition | Universe Today
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El – Yitm, appeared to be of great height; we all remarked its towering stature and trifid headpiece, apparently upwards of five thousand feet high, before we had heard the tale attached to it.
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And this "-a stem with four trifid leaves-" langlorn, which brightens the mind and clears the senses.
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The upper as well as the lower leaves are trifid, or three-parted.
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The most important spoon in the Jamestown collection, and one of the most significant objects excavated, is an incomplete pewter spoon -- a variant of the trifid, or split-end, type common during the 1650-90 period.
New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
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The leaves are triternate, divisions deeply cut and acute; the leaves of the involucrum are stalked, trifid, and deeply cut.
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This trifid cross represents a game played by the Hopi with reeds and is depicted on many objects of pottery.
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Figure c has at one extremity a trifid appendage, recalling a feather ornament on the head of a bird shown in plate CXXXVIII, a.
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The figure in this instance is little more than a trifid appendage to a broad band across the inner surface of the food bowl.
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