Meaning

2 senses
  1. (not comparable)Divided or forked into two; bifurcated.

    zweizackig

    resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches

  2. (not comparable)Having bifurcations.

    gegabelt

Examples

1 sentences
  1. This is where the river bifurcates, with one branch running to the East and the other running to the West.

Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 2
Divided or forked into two; bifurcated:
Having bifurcations.:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bifurcātus. Surface Analysis bi- + furcate.

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bifurcātus. Surface Analysis bi- + furcate.

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Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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