Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Cleft or separated into
eight segments .
Etymologies
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octo- + root of Latin findere to split.
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Examples
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Before passing on to the subject of digestion, I may state that I endeavoured to discover, with no success, the functions of the minute octofid processes with which the leaves are studded.
Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845
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These octofid projections are no doubt homologous with the papillae on the leaves of Drosera rotundifolia.
Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845
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