trifid
pronunciation
How to pronounce trifid in British English:
UK ['traɪfɪd]
How to pronounce trifid in American English:
US ['traɪfɪd]
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- Adjective:
- divided into three lobes
Word Origin
- trifid (adj.)
- "divided into three lobes," 1620s, from Latin trifidus "cleft in three," from tri- "three" (see tri-) + -fid. This adjective probably inspired triffid, the name of the three-legged walking poisonous plants in John Wyndham's novel "The Day of the Triffids" (1951).
Example
- 1. Trifid got its name because in photographs it has three distinct lobes .
- 2. In the center , the three prominent dust lanes that give the trifid its name all come together .
- 3. The trifid nebula itself represents the final phase of star formation .