multifid

From Latin multifidus, from multi- (“many”) + -fidus, from findere (“to split”). Equivalent of multi- +‎ -fid. Doublet of multifidus and multifidous.

multifid (not comparable)

1. Cleft into many parts or lobes.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , London: T H for Edward Dod, , →OCLC:

     For animals multifidous, or such as are digitated or have several divisions in their feet;

   • 1898, Adam Sedgwick et al., A Student's Text-book of Zoology:

     Helicidae: Land-snails...genital organs generally with a dart and multifid vesicles.

• bifid, trifid, quadrifid, quinquefid, sexfid/sexifid, octofid, novemfid, decemfid, duodecimfid, centifidous

• multifidus muscle

Borrowed from Latin multifidus.

multifid m or n (feminine singular multifidă, masculine plural multifizi, feminine and neuter plural multifide)

1. divided into many parts

• multifid in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN