The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bifurcate \Bi*fur"cate\, v. i. To divide into two branches.
Bifurcate \Bi*fur"cate\, Bifurcated \Bi*fur"ca*ted\, a. [Pref. bi- + furcate.]
Two-pronged; forked.
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divided into or made up of two parts. socially bifurcated populations
Syn: chesty.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 Divided or forked into two; bifurcated. 2 Having bifurcations. v
To divide or fork into two channels or branches.
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: biramous, branched, forked, forficate, pronged, prongy]
v. split or divide into two
divide into two branches; "The road bifurcated"
Usage examples of "bifurcate".
In figure 51, the ridge which bifurcates is connected with the lower type line.
Figure 52 reflects the same type of delta shown in the previous figure in that the ridge is bifurcating from a type line and then bifurcates again to form the delta.
Arkansas was one of five states at the time that held such bifurcated, or two-phased, trials, in which juries decide both guilt and sentencing.
Occasionally a trunk would lift out of a mound, the two very human hands at its bifurcated tip twisting together, and slowly the songs grew clearer.
The deer with which we have to deal range from the elaphine, or red deer type, to the simple bifurcated antler of the muntjac, which consists of a beam and brow antler only.
What bearing has this assumption on the concept of nature as bifurcated into causal nature and apparent nature?
Once, when he was a mogul of bean-counting, when he was peeing strongly, when he was fucking Jo on his desk, her legs bifurcated eagerly, he tried to buy the house up in the bracken, which has its own path to the cove.
The peninsulas sprouted grasping tendrils, thigh-thick at the trunk but narrowing to the dimensions of plant fronds, and then narrowing further, bifurcating into lacy, fernlike hazes of awesome complexity.
It extended upward with astonishing haste, bifurcating and flexing like a groping fist.
The exception is when the forks run parallel after bifurcating and then diverge.
Ridge C strikes into A at point B and should not be considered as a bifurcating ridge.
The tongue sourced there has thinned to fit the urethra and has bifurcated many times within our bellies.
Not only were they tuskless, but their lower-lip trunks were bifurcated for the last meter or so of their length.
Her gaze Waveled consideringly over the slope between her and the point, there was a huge old tree with a bifurcated trunk, surrounded by thick clumps of blackberry and other bushes.
At the bottom they were bifurcated, trifurcated, multifurcated into rooty legs or leggy roots on which they wandered about in a rather desultory way, sometimes tripping each other out of what seemed to be sheer ill nature.