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furcate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb furcate has 1 sense
- furcate(v = verb.change) branch, fork, ramify, separate - divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" is one way to diverge
Derived form noun furcation1
Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
furcate, a. [L. furca fork. See Fork.].
Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
furcate, adj. & v.
--adj. also forked, branched.
--v.intr. form a fork, divide.
--adj. also forked, branched.
--v.intr. form a fork, divide.
Derivative
furcation n.
Etymology
L furca fork: (adj.) f. LL furcatus
THESAURUS
furcate
V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angle, angle off, angular, arboreal, arborescent, arboriform, bend, bent, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, branch, branch out, branched, branching, branchlike, cornered, crank, crook, crooked, crotched, dendriform, dendritic, divaricate, elbow, fork, forked, forking, forklike, furcal, geniculate, geniculated, hook, hooked, jagged, knee-shaped, pointed, pronged, ramify, ramous, saw-toothed, sawtooth, serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, stem, swerve, tree-shaped, treelike, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, veer, zag, zig, zigzag
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