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BIFURCATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches
Example:
horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots
Synonyms:
bifurcate; biramous; branched; forficate; fork-like; forked; pronged; prongy
Classified under:
Similar:
divided (separated into parts or pieces)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they bifurcate ... he / she / it bifurcates
Past simple: bifurcated
Past participle: bifurcated
-ing form: bifurcating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divide into two branches
Example:
The road bifurcated
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "bifurcate" is one way to...):
branch; fork; furcate; ramify; separate (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
bifurcation (the act of splitting into two branches)
bifurcation (the place where something divides into two branches)
bifurcation (a bifurcating branch (one or both of them))
fork (the act of branching out or dividing into branches)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Split or divide into two
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "bifurcate" is one way to...):
diverge (extend in a different direction)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Derivation:
bifurcation (the act of splitting into two branches)
bifurcation (a bifurcating branch (one or both of them))
fork (the act of branching out or dividing into branches)
