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Furcate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FUR'CATE, a. [L. furca, a fork.] Forked; branching like the prongs of a fork.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" [syn: branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & v. --adj. also forked, branched. --v.intr. form a fork, divide. Derivatives: furcation n. Etymology: L furca fork: (adj.) f. LL furcatus

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Furcate Fur"cate, Furcated Fur"ca*ted, a. [L. furca fork. See Fork.] Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a.; (also furcated) Forked, fork-shaped, branching, divaricated, furcular.

Moby Thesaurus

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