Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having many clefts forming lobes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having many fissions or divisions; cleft into many parts, lobes, or segments, as certain leaves: chiefly a zoölogical and botanical term.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Cleft into many parts or lobes.
Etymologies
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From multi- + -fid, from findere ("to cleave").
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Examples
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Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550
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