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furcate

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɜː.keɪt/Part of speech verbSorted acefrtuStarts with FEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

Word origin

From Medieval Latin furcātus (“forked, branched”), from Latin furca (“fork”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French fourchu.

Used in a sentence

  • These ridges are prominent, about the thickness of a coarse thread, very numerous, irregular, and run into one another, but towards the bottom, always furcate or divide.
  • In Dyticus it even furcates, and with both prongs of the fork it encloses the intestine, and lower down the nervous cord
  • Descending keel of the pronotum, which divides into two furcating lamella

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