Crossword-Solution: TRIFID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trifid | a. | Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “TRIFID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Three-cleft. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TRIFID (5)
Each branch is, however, bifid or more commonly trifid towards the extremity, with the points blunt yet distinctly hooked.
But the third cervical vertebræ of the wild and lop-eared (A _b,_ B _b_) rabbits differ more conspicuously when their anterior articular surfaces are compared; for the extremities of the antero-dorsal processes in the wild rabbit are simply rounded, whilst in the lop-eared they are trifid, with a deep central pit.
The tracks have been found in more than twenty places, scattered through an extent of nearly 80 miles from north to south, and they are repeated through a succession of beds attaining at some points a thickness of more than 1000 feet.[7] The bipedal impressions are, for the most part, trifid, and show the same number of joints as exist in the feet of living tridactylous birds.
The apex is sometimes bifid or even trifid, owing to a slight separation between the terminal pointed cells.
The tarso-metatarsal, or drumstick, exhibits at its distal end a trifid articular surface supporting three toes, as in birds.
Quotes with TRIFID (1)
The tallest slugger touched my forehead, and I ignited like a sparkler on the Fourth of July. Shards of dazzling light rippled under my skin. I was the constellation Grus. The Trifid Nebula. I was the Big Bang, expanding endlessly through time and space forever." I thought I was dying. That I was going to expire on a cold slab, trapped inside an UFO, my body filled with every light that had ever existed. I couldn't imagine a better way to die.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1948).