bifid
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- bifidity noun
- bifidly adverb
Etymology
Origin of bifid
1655–65; < Latin bifidus, equivalent to bi- bi- 1 + fid- (variant stem of findere to split; akin to bite ) + -us adj. suffix
Example Sentences
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The 2-year-old had surgery for the condition, called preaxial polydactyly or bifid thumb, at Shriners Children’s Chicago hospital this year.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023
The pads on the 3rd and 4th fingers become enlarged at the same time as the bifid claws develop.
From Scientific American • Jan. 13, 2014
Figure 7.25 Cervical Vertebrae A typical cervical vertebra has a small body, a bifid spinous process, transverse processes that have a transverse foramen and are curved for spinal nerve passage.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
ARÚNDO, L. Flowers all perfect; flowering glume bifid, short-awned between the teeth.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Valves of the pod entire, bifid or 2-parted.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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