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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 Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

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 Dame, Lorin Low