Bifid Definition

bīfĭd
adjective
Divided into two equal parts by a cleft, as the end of a snake's tongue; forked.
Webster's New World
Forked or cleft into two parts.
A bifid petal.
American Heritage Medicine

Cleft. Divided into two lobes.

Wiktionary

Origin of Bifid

  • From Latin bifidus (“cleft”), from bi- (“two”) + -fidus, combining form of findo (“I cleave, split”)

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Bifid Sentence Examples

  • The setae are either entirely capillary or there are in addition some sigmoid setae even with bifid free extremities.

  • Shell thin; operculum absent; tentacles bifid; foot secretes a float; pelagic. Janthina.

  • The intestinal sac has become bifid and is usually devoid of branches.

  • They may be characterized as very elongated reptiles without limbs (unless with tiny vestiges of posterior limbs), without eyelids and external ear openings, with the teeth anchylosed to the supporting bones, a bifid slender tongue which is telescoped into its basal half, and with a transverse vent.

  • Always bifid and re tractile into itself.

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