Associations to the word «Bifurcate»

Wiktionary

BIFURCATE, adjective. Divided or forked into two; bifurcated.
BIFURCATE, adjective. Having bifurcations.
BIFURCATE, verb. To divide or fork into two channels or branches.

Dictionary definition

BIFURCATE, verb. Split or divide into two.
BIFURCATE, verb. Divide into two branches; "The road bifurcated".
BIFURCATE, adjective. Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots".

Wise words

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