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tri⋅fid

  [trahy-fid]
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–adjective
cleft into three parts or lobes.
Origin:
1745–55; < L trifidus split in three. See tri-, -fid
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tri·fid   (trī'fĭd')   
adj.  Divided or cleft into three narrow parts or lobes: a trifid tail; a trifid organ.

[Latin trifidus : tri-, tri- + findere, fid-, to split.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

trifid 
"divided into three lobes," 1628, from L. trifidus "cleft in three," from tri- "three" + root of findere "to cleave." This adj. probably inspired triffid, the name of the three-legged walking poisonous plants in John Wyndham's novel "The Day of the Triffids" (1951).
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Medical Dictionary

trifid tri·fid (trī'fĭd')
adj.
Divided into three narrow parts or lobes.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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