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forficate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective forficate has 1 sense
- forficate(s = adj.all) bifurcate, biramous, branched, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy - resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
CIDE DICTIONARY
forficate, a. [L. forfex, forficis, shears.].
Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds. [1913 Webster]
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