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FURCATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The place where something divides into branches
Synonyms:
forking; furcation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("furcation" is a kind of...):
angular shape; angularity (a shape having one or more sharp angles)
Meronyms (parts of "furcation"):
branch; leg; ramification (a part of a forked or branching shape)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "furcation"):
bifurcation (the place where something divides into two branches)
Derivation:
furcate (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)
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