Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To divide into branches; fork.
- adjective Divided into branches; forked.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Forked; branching like the prongs of a fork.
- To branch; fork; divide into branches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Forked; branching like a fork.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Forked ,branched ; divided at one end into parts. - verb To
fork orbranch out .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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 Various
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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 Fritz Muller 1859
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The tail soon acquires the furcate form with which we made acquaintance in the last Prawn-Zoea described.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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