furcate
adjective
forked; branching.
furcation
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a word derived from
furcate.
Example Sentences
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Leaves prolonged on the stem beneath the insertion: branchlets springing out beneath the point of furcation, as the feathering along the trunk of elms, etc.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame
In reality, however, this "furcation," which was formerly regarded as a very mysterious process, is nothing but the familiar, repeated cell-segmentation.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
