furca

British  

/ ˈfɜːkə /

noun

1. zoology any forklike structure, esp in insects

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Other Word Forms

• furcal adjective

Etymology

Origin of furca

Latin: fork

Example Sentences

“I am seeing plenty of Lingulodinium polyedra and Tripos furca the last few days — both are producers of the bioluminescence light shows we are seeing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2024

Is he to be ever marking passages? if so, he has the real trouble of being editor, not I. Naturam expellas furca, &c.

From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Ornsby, Robert

Sulkily enough the executioners unbound the heavy furca.

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns

So true is that observation, Naturam expellas furca licet, usque recurret.

From The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Fielding, Henry

Copepoda.—The body is not encased in a bivalved shell; its articulated segments are at most eleven, those behind the genital segment being without trace of limbs, but the last almost always carrying a furca.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various