furcate

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The capillitium is very even the taeniae closely wound, the elater-ends often furcate.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Furcā′tion, a forking or branching out; Fur′cifer, a genus of South American deer with furcate antlers.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Sporangia fasciculate, confluent on a persistent hypothallus, dark fuscous; peridia very fugacious; stipes united at the base, erect, furcate; spores large, brown, globose.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

The stems are branched in a furcate manner and confluent at the base, forming a compact tuft.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

The tail soon acquires the furcate form with which we made acquaintance in the last Prawn-Zoea described.

From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Muller, Fritz