The bifidcaecal apparatus of the American manatee (Fig.
As in that animal, the malar bone is bifid posteriorly, and between the bifurcation is embraced the process of the squamosal.
The sternum consists of three pieces only, the last of which is bifid posteriorly.
The bifid nature of the uterus had been anticipated before the operation, as an imperfect vertical septum was known to exist on the posterior vaginal wall.
The Serpents are distinguished from the Lizards by their want of feet and the long bifid tongue inclosed within a sheath.
Body cylindriform and scaly, teeth acuminate, tongue longitudinally bifid and inclosed within a sheath; no feet and eyelids.
The trifid lower lip is the standard and wings; the bifid upper lip, on the contrary, the keel.
Simple bifid setae, such as those of Oligochaetes, are also present in certain forms.
The setae are either entirely capillary or there are in addition some sigmoid setae even with bifid free extremities.
Clothed with an epidermis; striated, compressed, oval; the summits not very prominent; two bifid teeth upon the right valve and a single undivided one upon the left.
Typhon[827] it is longer than the anterior ones, and bifid at the apex; in M.
Titanus[825] the anterior horn is longer than the rest, and bifid at the apex; in D.
In Coelioxys conica and others, those of the latter sex are bifid at the apex, but those of the former acute[871].
The first bifid neuropodial lobes appear on the twenty-first setigerous segment.
In the second division of the body the ventral lobe is similarly elongate and bifid at the tip with the inner or more dorsal lobe the longer; but the lobes are characteristically more divergent, thinner and more slender.
The bristles are slender and hair-like, but among them are in some species the shorter stouter bristles bifid at the free tip, which are so general among the aquatic families of the Oligochaeta.
The latter are not only sculptured with fine ridges but are bifid at their free extremity.
Palea distinctlybifid at the apex: awn nearly twice its length.
Palea parchment-like, lanceolate-terete, acuminate and bifid at the apex, rounded on the back and with yellow hairs on the lower part.
Note the stiff, velvety, bifid and mucronate outer palea, and the large hairy rachilla.
Awns, twisted below and bent above, inserted into the middle of the back of the bifid palea or below it.
The palea is bifid above--not visible in the lateral view.
The stump then presents as a single or a bifid protuberance of variable size.
And Man cannot in the nature of things, in the nature of thought, in the nature of language, be separated into two such incoherent halves.
When I talked with an ardent missionary and pointed out to him that his creed found no support in my experience, he replied: 'It is not so in your experience, but is so in the other world.
The chrysalids are of peculiar form, with bifid heads and broad wing-cases.
The chrysalis is small, green, or brown, strongly bifid at the head.
A bifid tubercular elevation is also placed in the middle of the back of each segment.
Englisch speaks of a German of forty who possessed a double penis of the bifid type.
There have been individuals with bifid tongues, after the normal type of serpents and saurians, and others who possessed a supernumerary tongue.
There are modern instances in which the funis has been bifidor duplex, and there is also a case reported in which there were two cords in a twin pregnancy, each of them measuring five feet in length.
There are a few instances recorded of bifid clitoris, and Arnaud cites the history of a woman who had a double clitoris.
Five specimens have round subarticular tubercles beneath the fourth fingers; six specimens have a bifid tubercle on one hand, and two specimens have bifid tubercles on both hands.
Tubercles beneath the fourth fingers are bifid in 20 specimens and rounded in all others.
Many individuals have a bifid subarticular tubercle beneath the fourth finger.
The distal subarticular tubercle beneath the fourth finger is bifid in about two-thirds of the specimens; in the rest it is round.
The distal subarticular tubercle of the fourth finger is eitherbifid or double in all specimens; that on the third finger usually is bifid, sometimes single.
All but five specimens have bifid subarticular tubercles beneath the fourth finger.
Many workers have used the presence of a bifid subarticular tubercle beneath the fourth finger as a diagnostic character of certain species of hylids.
Twenty specimens have a bifid subarticular tubercle beneath the fourth finger; in the others there are no bifid tubercles.
Bifid tubercles beneath the fourth finger are found in all species except P.
In one specimen, there was a minute pectinated tooth between the first and second; in another, the second tooth was bifid on its summit; in another, the fourth was rudimentary.
The fourth glume is narrow, ciliate, nerveless or rarely 1-nerved, erose or bifidat the top.
The first glume is chartaceous, linear oblong, many-nerved, shortly bifid at the apex, longer than the other glumes.
The first glume is herbaceous, many-nerved, ovate-acute, minutely bifid at the apex.
They are studded with tiny warts, and terminate not in a sucking disk, but in a sort of bifid extremity.
A Saxon noble, with long hair and a bifid beard, holding a sword of characteristic Saxon form.
A Phrygian-shaped cap of leather, bound with metal; the bifid beard is also shown again.
Saxon, showing the bifid beard and the arrangement of the hair.
A Saxon king, with a bifid beard, on the seat of judgment, crowned and attired in a tunica, covered with a short mantle, which is fastened in the centre of the chest by a brooch of rectangular form.
The species in this group lack vocal slits and have either large, rectangular, or bifid prepollices.
A Plectrohyla having a bifid prepollex, bold mottling on flanks and ventral surfaces of shanks, and vertical dark bars on anterior and posterior surfaces of thighs, and lacking vocal slits and outer tarsal fold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bifid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bicameral; bicuspid; binomial; bipartite; biped; bisexual
