Definition of "furcate" []

• To divide into branches; fork. (verb-intransitive)
• Divided into branches; forked. (adjective)

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