FURCATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does furcate mean? 

• FURCATE (verb)
  The verb FURCATE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FURCATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FURCATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they furcate    ... he / she / it furcates   
Past simple: furcated   
Past participle: furcated   
-ing form: furcating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

branch; fork; furcate; ramify; separate

Context example:

The road forks

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)