Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bifid; divided half-way from the border to the base into two segments.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.
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Examples
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The anthers of the stamens, which are five in number, protrude from the top of the corolla tube, together with the top of the two-cleft pistil.
All About Coffee 1909
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It will be noticed that these tiny florets, so well protected in the centre, are of two different kinds, separated on distinct heads: the female florets with a tubular, five-cleft corolla, a two-cleft style, and a copious pappus of hairy bristles; the staminate, or male, florets more slender, the anthers tailed at the base.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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Last, but by no means the least, is the _Ribes hirtellum_, "commonest in our Eastern States, seldom downy, with very short thorns or none, very short peduncles, stamens and two-cleft style scarcely longer than the bell-shaped calyx; and the smooth berry is purple, small and sweet."
Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863
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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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