Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Forked or cleft into two parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cleft or divided into two parts; forked, as the tongue of a snake; specifically, in botany, divided half-way down into two parts; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Cleft .Divided intotwo lobes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective divided into two lobes
Etymologies
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Examples
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When divided, they take the name of Furca, forks or forked prickles; and are called bifid, trifid, &c. from the num - ber of divisions.
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Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (NBCCS) is characterized by skeletal abnormalities, such as bifid ribs (ribs that are split into two pieces) and wedge-shaped vertebrae.
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Named after Cadboro Bay, a sightings hotspot, Caddy sightings are impressively consistent, with most reports mentioning a large-eyed, horse-like or camel-like head (often with short horns), a long neck, serpentine body, a pair of flippers and a bifid, horizontal tail (LeBlond & Bousfield 1995).
Cadborosaurus Darren Naish 2006
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Named after Cadboro Bay, a sightings hotspot, Caddy sightings are impressively consistent, with most reports mentioning a large-eyed, horse-like or camel-like head (often with short horns), a long neck, serpentine body, a pair of flippers and a bifid, horizontal tail (LeBlond & Bousfield 1995).
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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In some oviparous quadrupeds, namely in lizards, the tongue is bifid, as also it is in serpents, and its terminal divisions are of hair-like fineness, as has already been described.
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Barbed and Unbarbed, and feet into Manycleft, and Twocleft, like those of animals with bifid hoofs, and Uncleft or Undivided, like those of animals with solid hoofs.
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When you see a left with two points (bifid leaf) coming up, transplant the seedling out into the nursery.
Chapter 3 1977
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The bulbus urethrae being also a median structure, is occasionally found notched in the centre, and presenting a bifid appearance.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The pupæ of this species are rough, and armed with small, sharp points at all the segments; the last segment having a thick, straight, and bifid tail.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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The second glume is thinner, dorsally gibbous, keeled, 5 - to 9-nerved, beaked and minutely bifid.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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