bifurcate

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The leaves continually bifurcate, so that a full-grown one terminates in from twenty to thirty

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  1. transitive verb To divide into two parts or branches.
  2. intransitive verb To separate into two parts or branches; fork.
  3. adjective Forked or divided into two parts or branches, as the Y-shaped styles of certain flowers.

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  • I could see, for instance, if the Academy decided to bifurcate the picture awards into drama and musical / comedy, a la the Golden Globes (and the Emmys) so as to correct the awards 'traditional drama bias. —  ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs
  • The purpose of this video was to bifurcate (his word) humanity to those who follow the Truth (by his definition) and those who do not. —  Vanguard Church
  • However, there is a tax policy rationale for forcing firms to bifurcate in-the-money pay packages into discrete grants of stock and at-the-money options, a combination that I refer to as a synthetic in-the-money option. —  TaxProf Blog
  • I'll kind of bifurcate our portfolio by emerging markets and then established markets because that's how we really look at it. —  Retail Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • There are in the New World some other very interesting animals of this group, such as the musk-ox (_Ovibos_), and the prong-horned antelope (_Antilocapra_), which last so far resembles the Cervidae that the horns, which are bifurcate, are also annually shed. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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  1. Medieval Latin bifurcāre, bifurcāt-, to divide, from Latin bifurcus, two-pronged : bi-, two; see bi-1 + furca, fork.

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  1. from Middle Latin bifurcatus, past participle adjective, two-forked (ef. L. bifurcus, two-forked), from Latin bi-, two-, + furcatus, forked: see furcate.
 

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