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Definition of Bifurcate

1. Verb. Split or divide into two.

2. Adjective. Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches. "Horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"

3. Verb. Divide into two branches. "The road bifurcated"

Definition of Bifurcate

1. a. Two-pronged; forked.

2. v. i. To divide into two branches.

Definition of Bifurcate

1. Adjective. Divided or forked into two; bifurcated. ¹

2. Adjective. Having bifurcations. ¹

3. Verb. To divide or fork into two channels or branches. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bifurcate

1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]

Medical Definition of Bifurcate

1. Bifurcated Forked; two-pronged; having two branches. Origin: bi-+ L. Furca, fork (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bifurcate

biforines biforked biform biformed biformities biformity biforous bifoveal fixation bifront bifronted

bifunctional bifunctionally bifundamental bifundamentals bifuran bifurcate (current term) bifurcate ligament bifurcated bifurcated ligament bifurcately

bifurcates bifurcating bifurcatio bifurcatio aortae bifurcatio tracheae bifurcatio trunci pulmonalis bifurcation bifurcation lymph nodes bifurcation of aorta bifurcation of pulmonary trunk

Literary usage of Bifurcate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Patent Office Papers by United States Patent Office (1919)
"bifurcate division.—Most discussions of classification make reference to the so-called bifurcate scheme of division as the only one by which exhaustive ..."

2. The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method by William Stanley Jevons (1877)
"bifurcate Classification. Every system of classification ought to be formed on the principles of the Logical Alphabet. Each superior class should be divided ..."

3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... main channels bifurcate, and each new stream so created throws off its own set of distributaries to right and left. The country which they thus enclose ..."

4. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1841)
"Tail bifurcate, and with two pairs of horns (thus becoming eix- pointed); ... (Tail bifurcate, and with ten pair of cornicles ; a frontal pro longation. ..."

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