FURCATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they furcate ... he / she / it furcates

Past simple: furcated

Past participle: furcated

-ing form: furcating

Meaning:

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

Example:

The road forks

Synonyms:

branch; fork; furcate; ramify; separate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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)