furcate

[ adjective fur-keyt, -kit; verb fur-keyt ]

adjective

1. forked; branching.

verb (used without object)

, fur·cat·ed, fur·cat·ing.

1. to form a fork; branch.

furcate

verb

1. to divide into two parts; fork

adjective

1. forked; divided

   furcate branches

Derived Forms

• furˈcation, noun

Other Words From

• fur·ca·tion [fer-, key, -sh, uh, n], noun
• multi·furcate adjective
• un·furcate adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of furcate¹

First recorded in 1810–20, furcate is from the Medieval Latin word furcātus cloven. See fork, -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of furcate¹

C19: from Late Latin furcātus forked, from Latin furca a fork

Example Sentences

Furcate, fur′kāt, adj. forked: branching like the prongs of a fork—also Fur′cated.—ns.

From Project Gutenberg

Furcā′tion, a forking or branching out; Fur′cifer, a genus of South American deer with furcate antlers.—adjs.

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Fur′cular, furcate: shaped like a fork.

From Project Gutenberg

Fructification wholly plasmodiocarpous, snow-white, small, 2–6 mm., flat and thin; the outer wall double, membranous within, calcareous-crystalline without; columella none; capillitium simple of rather thick, vertical, brown threads, sparingly united laterally, and only occasionally furcate at the ends, especially above; spores minutely spinulescent, violaceous pale, 12–15 �.

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Sporangia fasciculate, confluent on a persistent hypothallus, dark fuscous; peridia very fugacious; stipes united at the base, erect, furcate; spores large, brown, globose.

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Related Words

• cut across