quadrifid

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

QUAD'RIFID, adjective [Latin quadrifidus; quadra and findo, to divide.] In botany, four-cleft, as a quadrifid perianth; cut into four segments, with linear sinuses and straight margins, as a quadrifid leaf.
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