multifid

From multi- +‎ fid, from Latin findere (“to cleave”).

multifid (not comparable)

1. Cleft into many parts or lobes.
   • Pseudodoxia Epidemica, by Sir Thomas Browne, 1646:

     For animals multifidous, or such as are digitated or have several divisions in their feet;

   • A Student's Text-book of Zoology, by Adam Sedgwick, et al., 1898:

     Helicidae: Land-snails...genital organs generally with a dart and multifid vesicles.

   • Phyllanthaceae:

     The style is usually 2-lobed or bifid ... or rarely multifid.

• multifidus muscle

• multifidous
• bifid
• trifid