furcate

adj

1. (not-comparable)Forked, branched; divided at one end into parts.

verb

1. To fork or branch out.

   “These ridges are prominent, about the thickness of a coarse thread, very numerous, irregular, and run into one another, but towards the bottom, always furcate or divide.”

   “In Dyticus it even furcates, and with both prongs of the fork it encloses the intestine, and lower down the nervous cord”

   “Descending keel of the pronotum, which divides into two furcating lamella”