Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, six-cleft: as, a sexfid calyx or nectary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Six-cleft.
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- adjective botany
cleft intosix
Etymologies
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sex- ("six") + root of Latin findere ("to split").
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Examples
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Beneath five bright and simple petals grew a disproportionately large seed pod, a sexfid drum, from each face of which protruded gummy and fringed bosses resembling sea anemones.
HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
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