Furcate

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: fur=cate

CIDE DICTIONARY

Furcate, a. [L. furca fork. See Fork.].

 Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Furcate, adj. & v.
--adj. also forked, branched.
--v.intr. form a fork, divide.

Derivative

furcation n.

Etymology

L furca fork: (adj.) f. LL furcatus

THESAURUS

Furcate

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