Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Divided into two parts somewhat after the manner of a fork; dichotomous, as the stem of a plant, the tongue of a snake, a deer's antler, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Divided into two parts, somewhat after the manner of a fork; dichotomous.
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Examples
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And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment
D. H. Lawrence greenintegerblog 2008
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Author Mamatas has taken a two-forked road across America this time.
Just another Manic Monday...whoah oh... deep_bluze 2004
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There are often smaller gills between the others, and sometimes they are two-forked (bifurcate), and are connected by veins.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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[W. 5175.] and fear-inspiring, in his head; a two-forked beard, yellow, fairly curled, on his chin; a purple mantle with fringes and five-folded wrapped around him;
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The posts were turned so that the forks lay in proper position to receive the floor beams and upper rails; a two-forked post was placed with the prong C (figure 32) turned inward.
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If I had several two-forked posts and several one-forked posts with companion posts beside them, it required some little bit of fitting to adjust them all so that the floor beams and rails would lie properly.
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With a dozen courses open to them, any one of which might have saved the situation, they deliberately chose a thirteenth - two-forked toboggan-slide into destruction.
Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914
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And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,
Georgian Poetry 1920-22 Various 1912
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This two-forked boat figures in the reign of Nintoku's successor, Richu, when the latter and his concubine went on board and feasted separately, each in one fork.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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The former was bearing a two-forked bough {as his weapon}, the latter a javelin; with his javelin he gave me
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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