Definition of "multifid"

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

1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […]

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

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