forficate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: forficate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for forficate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
forficate 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" Synonym(s): bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forficate \For"fi*cate\, a. [L. forfex, forficis, shears.] (Zo[94]l.) Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.