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furcate

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

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, fur·cat·ed, fur·cat·ing.

furcate

Origin of furcate¹

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

Origin of furcate¹

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

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.

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