bifurcate
- adjective
- /ˈbaɪfərˌkeɪt/
- Formal
- The plant has a bifurcate stem that splits into two distinct branches.
Loading YouTube…
Watch on YouTubeLike it's, it's so much bigger and more complex than that, that it has now become very bifurcating, very extreme.
- Like it's, it's so much bigger and more complex than that, that it has now become very bifurcating, very extreme.
Examples
-
This is the stent on the inside of a PTFE fabric with a bifurcated uni modular system.
-
The map shows a bifurcate river that flows in two directions.
-
The Urat possess a bifurcate merging Iroquois set of kin terms.
Academic text (1992) -
The designer created a bifurcate pattern that separates the two colors.
Synonyms
1
8.2
Split into two separate parts
1
4.2
Dividing into two or more branches, like a road that splits
Shaped like a fork with two thin branches
Having two parts that reach almost to the base
A leaf or plant part with two separate lobes like a ginkgo leaf
Having two rounded parts separated by a deep notch
A limb or body part that has two separate branches
Shaped like a fork with two or more branches
A thing with parts that split into two or more branches
A thing that has thin pointed parts that stick out like the points of a fork
Having two or more pointy branches like a fork
Having parts that split and spread out like a tree
Split into groups that do not agree
Surface Forms
Morphology
bifurcate = furcate (semi-transparent) = bi + furcate
The prefix 'bi-' meaning 'two' combines logically with 'furcate', but 'furcate' is a rare/technical base that many learners may not know.
Etymology
Bifurcate comes from the Latin parts bi- 'two' and furca 'fork'. So, think of a fork with two branches; something bifurcate is divided into two parts.