The Collaborative International Dictionary
Furcate \Fur"cate\, Furcated \Fur"ca*ted\, a. [L. furca fork. See Fork.] Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"forked, branching like the prongs of a fork," 1819, from Medieval Latin furcatus, from Latin furca "a two-pronged fork" (see fork (n.)). As a verb, from 1828 (implied in furcated).
Wiktionary
forked, branched; divided at one end into parts. v
To fork or branch out.
WordNet
Usage examples of "furcate".
The root systems of an ancient tree seemed to furcate and furrow the surface of his thighs, and where his skin was not covered in dark hair, it was strangely rippled with wild webs of some kind of tissue just beneath the skin.
He now noticed, however, that furtive, furcating cracks kept appearing in his physical well-being, as if inevitable decomposition were sending out to him, across static gray time, its first emissaries.