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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To divide into branches; fork.
  2. adj. Divided into branches; forked.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Forked; branching like the prongs of a fork.
  2. To branch; fork; divide into branches.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Forked, branched; divided at one end into parts.
  2. v. To fork or branch out.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Forked; branching like a fork.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

Etymologies

  1. From Medieval Latin furcātus ("forked, branched"), from Latin furca ("fork"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin furcātus, forked, from Latin furca, fork. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “We have at different times heard complaints of these fronds being simply furcate, when the same plant, after being subjected to a greater amount of heat and moisture, produced fronds very heavily tasseled, and partaking of an elegant vase-shaped appearance.”

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884

  • “The abdomen of the young Cirripede is produced beneath the anus into a long tail-like appendage which is furcate at the extremity, and over the anus there is a second long, spine-like process; the abdomen in the Rhizocephala terminates in two short points, -- in a”

    Facts and Arguments for Darwin

  • “The tail soon acquires the furcate form with which we made acquaintance in the last Prawn-Zoea described.”

    Facts and Arguments for Darwin

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  1. forked
  1. cloven

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Other words for ‘furcate’

  1. furcated

hypernyms (1)

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  1. diverge

hyponyms (5)

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  1. bifurcate
  1. arborise
  1. trifurcate
  1. twig
  1. arborize

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  1. fork
  2. forky
  1. furcal
  2. furcular
  1. forficate
  2. forficulate
  1. furcately
  2. furcellate
  1. carabus
  2. euchlanidæ
  1. forcipate
  2. furcifer
  1. scyphobranchii
  2. notommatidæ

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