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Multifidous vs Multifid - What's the difference?

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Multifidous is a related term of multifid.


As adjectives the difference between multifidous and multifid

is that multifidous is multifid while multifid is cleft into many parts or lobes.

multifidous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • multifid
  • multifid

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Cleft into many parts or lobes.
  • *Pseudodoxia Epidemica , by Sir Thomas Browne, 1646:
  • For animals multifidous, or such as are digitated or have several divisions in their feet;
  • *A Student's Text-book of Zoology , by Adam Sedgwick, et al., 1898:
  • Helicidae: Land-snails...genital organs generally with a dart and multifid vesicles.
  • * :
  • The style is usually 2-lobed or bifid ... or rarely multifid.

    Derived terms

    * multifidus muscle