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trifid

ADJECTIVE
  1. divided into three lobes
    trifid petals

How To Use trifid In A Sentence

  • The suture is quadrilobate and of modest complexity, with two trifid lobes represented on the flanks, margined by bifid saddles.
  • I had to Google "trifid nebula false color image" to find the original. Where In The Universe Challenge, Thanksgiving Edition | Universe Today
  • This trifid cross represents a game played by the Hopi with reeds and is depicted on many objects of pottery. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
  • The figure in this instance is little more than a trifid appendage to a broad band across the inner surface of the food bowl. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
  • The case of the "trifid" nebula in Sagittarius, investigated by Holden in 1877, is less easily disposed of. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
  • Radiation and winds emanating from the star have sculpted the Trifid cloud into its current cavernous shape.
  • For example, a cardinal process with three lobate structures, but only two muscle attachment sites, would be bilobed and trifid.
  • The leaves are triternate, divisions deeply cut and acute; the leaves of the involucrum are stalked, trifid, and deeply cut. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
  • The suture is quadrilobate and of modest complexity, with two trifid lobes represented on the flanks, margined by bifid saddles.
  • Miloradovich also recognized these cardinal process types, and noted that the median lobe of the massive, trifid cardinal process often is recurved dorsally.
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