trifid

IPA: trˈaɪfɪd

Examples of "trifid" in Sentences

The stigmas are short and trifid.
Trifid cipher shows up fine for me.
It may be unbranched, bifid, or trifid.
Thus the trifid was the first practical trigraphic substitution.
The upper as well as the lower leaves are trifid, or three-parted.
I had to Google "trifid nebula false color image" to find the original.
The lower lip is trifid, the central lobe being larger than the lateral ones.
And this "-a stem with four trifid leaves-" langlorn, which brightens the mind and clears the senses.
The case of the "trifid" nebula in Sagittarius, investigated by Holden in 1877, is less easily disposed of.
This trifid cross represents a game played by the Hopi with reeds and is depicted on many objects of pottery.
The leaves are triternate, divisions deeply cut and acute; the leaves of the involucrum are stalked, trifid, and deeply cut.
The figure in this instance is little more than a trifid appendage to a broad band across the inner surface of the food bowl.
Figure c has at one extremity a trifid appendage, recalling a feather ornament on the head of a bird shown in plate CXXXVIII, a.
El – Yitm, appeared to be of great height; we all remarked its towering stature and trifid headpiece, apparently upwards of five thousand feet high, before we had heard the tale attached to it.
The most important spoon in the Jamestown collection, and one of the most significant objects excavated, is an incomplete pewter spoon -- a variant of the trifid, or split-end, type common during the 1650-90 period.