Trifid

The case of the "trifid" nebula in Sagittarius, investigated by Holden in 1877, is less easily disposed of. ❋ Unknown (1874)

I had to Google "trifid nebula false color image" to find the original. ❋ Unknown (2009)

El – Yitm, appeared to be of great height; we all remarked its towering stature and trifid headpiece, apparently upwards of five thousand feet high, before we had heard the tale attached to it. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And this "-a stem with four trifid leaves-" langlorn, which brightens the mind and clears the senses. ❋ Norton, Andre (1965)

The upper as well as the lower leaves are trifid, or three-parted. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)

The most important spoon in the Jamestown collection, and one of the most significant objects excavated, is an incomplete pewter spoon -- a variant of the trifid, or split-end, type common during the 1650-90 period. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

The leaves are triternate, divisions deeply cut and acute; the leaves of the involucrum are stalked, trifid, and deeply cut. ❋ John Wood (N/A)

This trifid cross represents a game played by the Hopi with reeds and is depicted on many objects of pottery. ❋ Jesse Walter Fewkes (1890)

Figure c has at one extremity a trifid appendage, recalling a feather ornament on the head of a bird shown in plate CXXXVIII, a. ❋ Jesse Walter Fewkes (1890)

The figure in this instance is little more than a trifid appendage to a broad band across the inner surface of the food bowl. ❋ Jesse Walter Fewkes (1890)

The broad trifid lip of the flower offers a support to the moth which is attracted by its sweet odour, and two ridges at the base guide the proboscis with certainty to the narrow entrance of the nectary. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)

Meaning trifid-leaved; but the leaf is really divided into five lobes, not three -- see S. 974, and G. 10. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Several of the peaks, especially the blue block El-Yitm, appeared to be of great height; we all remarked its towering stature and trifid headpiece, apparently upwards of five thousand feet high, before we had heard the tale attached to it. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

The apex is sometimes bifid or even trifid, owing to a slight separation between the terminal pointed cells. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

But the third cervical vertebræ of the wild and lop-eared 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. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

Occasionally two of the arms are replaced by one, and then the projection is trifid. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

The tarso-metatarsal, or drumstick, exhibits at its distal end a trifid articular surface supporting three toes, as in birds. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)

Every claw and phalange has left its mark in the stone; while the trifid termination of the tarso-metatarsal bone leaves three marks more, -- fifteen in all, -- the true ornithic number. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

OBSERVED near Cambelton a very curious scandent Fern (Pteris scandens) rambling over low bushes, in humid situations, the lower larger fronds were digitated, or rather radiated, but towards the tops or extremities of the branches they became trifid, hastated, and lastly lanciolate; it is a delicate plant, of a yellowish lively green, and would be an ornament in a garden. ❋ Unknown (1823)

The chair, with its bold, outscrolling arms and trifid feet, was recently featured in a traveling exhibition celebrating the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth. ❋ Unknown (2009)