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English Dictionary: multifarious by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
multifarious
adj
  1. having many aspects; "a many-sided subject"; "a multifaceted undertaking"; "multifarious interests"; "the multifarious noise of a great city"; "a miscellaneous crowd"
    Synonym(s): many-sided, multifaceted, miscellaneous, multifarious
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Multifarious \Mul`ti*fa"ri*ous\, a. [L. multifarius; multus
      much, many. Cf. {Bifarious}.]
      1. Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of
            various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing
            parts; manifold.
  
                     There is a multifarious artifice in the structure of
                     the meanest animal.                           --Dr. H. More.
  
      2. (Bot.) Having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical
            rows.
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