bifurcates
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bifurcated, past participle; bifurcates, 3rd person singular present; bifurcating, present participle; bifurcated, past tense;
/ˈbīfərˌkāt/,
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bifurcated, past participle; bifurcates, 3rd person singular present; bifurcating, present participle; bifurcated, past tense;
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Divide into two branches or forks
- - just below Cairo the river bifurcates
- - the trail was bifurcated by a mountain stream
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- (bifurcate) split or divide into two
- (bifurcate) 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"
- (bifurcate) Latin bis = double, and furco = fork, hence to divide into two.
- (Bifurcate) (BYE-fur-kayt) -- Said of stigma, styles, lip, or some hairs that are forked.
- (Bifurcate) a descriptive term for an object that is forked or has two branches. Bifurcate can be used as a verb when an object is split into two branches. An example of something in the body that can be bifurcated are blood vessels.
- (Bifurcate) branching into, or twice forkred
- (bifurcate (seta)) ending in two prongs
- (bifurcate) (b' fr kt') Branched or forked, as in the tongue of a snake or monitor lizard.