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furcate

verb as in bifurcate

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The threads appear at first sight entirely simple, but are really several times furcate, and not infrequently anastomose.

The capillitium is very even the taeniae closely wound, the elater-ends often furcate.

In many species, notably in the genus Thomisus, a furcate mark seems to shadow the forked aorta.

Often few furcate or four-rayed spicula are intermingled, or some of the spicula are smooth.

By-spines very numerous, half as long as the radius, furcate, with divergent fork-branches.

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On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to furcate, such as: angled, bifurcate, bifurcated, branched, branching, and divaricate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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