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bifidate

bifidate adjective: bifid, divided into two main parts.

Adjective

bifidate (not comparable)

  1. Bifid, divided into two main parts.
    • It is well-known among philologists that trifidate stemmata are generally rarer than bifidate ones.2024, Claudio De Stefani, “Stemmi trifidi e traduzioni orientali”, in Wiener Studien

Origin of bifidate

First attested in 1847; borrowed from Latin bifidātus, from bifidus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, bifid + -ate.

Questions about bifidate

What does bifidate mean?
Bifidate means bifid, divided into two main parts.
What part of speech is bifidate?
Bifidate is an adjective.

Words near bifidate in the dictionary

  1. bifibacterium
  2. bifictional
  3. bifid
  4. bifid cipher
  5. bifida
  6. bifidate
  7. bifidated
  8. bifidities
  9. bifidity
  10. bifidly
  11. bifidobacteria

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