Forficate

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Forficate \For"fi*cate\, a. [L. forfex, forficis, shears.]
     (Zool.)
     Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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" [syn: {bifurcate}, {biramous}, {branched}, {forked},
              {pronged}, {prongy}]