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FURCATE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they furcate ... he / she / it furcates
Past simple: furcated
-ing form: furcating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
Example:
The road forks
Synonyms:
branch; fork; furcate; ramify; separate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "furcate" is one way to...):
diverge (move or draw apart)
Verb group:
branch; ramify (grow and send out branches or branch-like structures)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "furcate"):
arborise; arborize (branch out like trees)
twig (branch out in a twiglike manner)
bifurcate (divide into two branches)
trifurcate (divide into three)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
furcation (the place where something divides into branches)