bifid

American  

[bahy-fid] / ˈbaɪ fɪd /

adjective

1. separated or cleft into two equal parts or lobes.

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bifid British  

/ ˈbaɪfɪd /

adjective

1. divided into two lobes by a median cleft

   bifid leaves

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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

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

On the basis of general external characters Tanner suggested that Hyla macrotympanum was related to H. miotympanum, from which it differed in having a larger tympanum and a bifid subarticular tubercle beneath the fourth finger.

From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by Duellman, William E.

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