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BIFURCATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches

Example:

horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots

Synonyms:

bifurcate; biramous; branched; forficate; fork-like; forked; pronged; prongy

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

divided (separated into parts or pieces)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Divide into two branches

Example:

The road bifurcated

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "bifurcate" is one way to...):

branch; fork; furcate; ramify; separate (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)

Sentence frame:

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Derivation:

bifurcation (the act of splitting into two branches)

bifurcation (the place where something divides into two branches)

bifurcation (a bifurcating branch (one or both of them))

fork (the act of branching out or dividing into branches)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Split or divide into two

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "bifurcate" is one way to...):

diverge (extend in a different direction)

Sentence frames:

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Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

bifurcation (the act of splitting into two branches)

bifurcation (a bifurcating branch (one or both of them))

fork (the act of branching out or dividing into branches)

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