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pronged
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective pronged has 2 senses
- pronged(s = adj.all) tined - having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a three-tined fork"
- pronged(s = adj.all) bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, 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
pronged, a.
Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
pronged
V-shaped, Y-shaped, acanthoid, acanthous, acicular, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, arboreal, arborescent, arboriform, barbed, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, branched, branching, branchlike, cornuted, crotched, cusped, cuspidate, dendriform, dendritic, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, hispid, horned, horny, mucronate, needle-pointed, needle-sharp, pointed, ramous, sharp-pointed, spiculate, spiked, spiky, spined, spinous, spiny, tapered, tapering, tined, toothed, tree-shaped, treelike, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, unbated
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