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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 1874

I had to Google "trifid nebula false color image" to find the original.

Where In The Universe Challenge, Thanksgiving Edition | Universe Today 2009

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.

The Land of Midian 2003

And this "-a stem with four trifid leaves-" langlorn, which brightens the mind and clears the senses.

Three Against The Witch World Norton, Andre 1965

The upper as well as the lower leaves are trifid, or three-parted.

The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr

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 J. Paul Hudson

The leaves are triternate, divisions deeply cut and acute; the leaves of the involucrum are stalked, trifid, and deeply cut.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

This trifid cross represents a game played by the Hopi with reeds and is depicted on many objects of pottery.

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890

Figure c has at one extremity a trifid appendage, recalling a feather ornament on the head of a bird shown in plate CXXXVIII, a.

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890

The figure in this instance is little more than a trifid appendage to a broad band across the inner surface of the food bowl.

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890