furcate

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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

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

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 threads appear at first sight entirely simple, but are really several times furcate, and not infrequently anastomose.

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)

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)