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Adjective

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective forked has 2 senses

forked(s = adj.all) bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, 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"
forked(s = adj.all) double - having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

forked, a.

Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting. [1913 Webster]
"A serpent seen, with forked tongue." [1913 Webster]
Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal. [1913 Webster]

Cross forked (Her.), a cross, the ends of whose arms are divided into two sharp points; -- called also cross double fitché. A cross forked of three points is a cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp points. -- Forked counsel, advice pointing more than one way; ambiguous advice. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

forked, adj.
1 having a fork or forklike end or branches.
2 divergent, cleft.
3 (in comb.) having so many prongs (three-forked).

Idiom

forked lightning a lightning-flash in the form of a zigzag or branching line.

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THESAURUS

forked

V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angular, arboreal, arborescent, arboriform, bent, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, bisected, branched, branching, branchlike, cleft, cloven, cornered, crooked, crotched, dendriform, dendritic, dichotomous, dimidiate, divided, forking, forklike, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated, halved, hooked, jagged, knee-shaped, pointed, pronged, ramified, ramous, riven, saw-toothed, sawtooth, serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, split, tree-shaped, treelike, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, zigzag

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Angularity

N angularity, angularness, aduncity, angle, cusp, bend, fold, notch, fork, bifurcation, elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo, corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel, coign, right angle, obliquity, angle of 45 degrees, miter, acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle, angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity, trigonometry, goniometry, altimetry, clinometer, graphometer, goniometer, theodolite, sextant, quadrant, dichotomy, triangle, trigon, wedge, rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond, rhomb, rhombus, quadrangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, quadrature, polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon, decagon, pyramid, cone, Platonic bodies, cube, rhomboid, tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron, prism, pyramid, parallelopiped, curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof, angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated, falciform, falcated, furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag, furcular, hooked, dovetailed, knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated, oblique, fusiform, wedge-shaped, cuneiform, cuneate, multangular, oxygonal, triangular, trigonal, trilateral, quadrangular, quadrilateral, foursquare, rectangular, square, multilateral, polygonal, cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.

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