Furcate [adjective]

Definition of Furcate:

going separate ways

Synonyms of Furcate:

● Bifurcate

● Divided

● Zigzag

● Split

● Branching

● Tined

● Angled

● Bifurcated

● Branched

● Divaricate

● Furcated

● Bifid

● Dichotomous

● Dichotonic

● Pronged

● Tridented


Opposite/Antonyms of Furcate:

● Joined


Sentence/Example of Furcate:

The threads appear at first sight entirely simple, but are really several times furcate, and not infrequently anastomose.

The capillitium is very even the taeniae closely wound, the elater-ends often furcate.

In many species, notably in the genus Thomisus, a furcate mark seems to shadow the forked aorta.

Often few furcate or four-rayed spicula are intermingled, or some of the spicula are smooth.

By-spines very numerous, half as long as the radius, furcate, with divergent fork-branches.

Terminal coronets (on the free distal ends of the styles) three times furcate, each with eight simple and short fingers.

Furcate: forked; divided nto two approximately equal divisions.