furcate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

furcate
    v 1: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The
         road forks" [syn: {branch}, {ramify}, {fork}, {furcate},
         {separate}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Furcate \Fur"cate\, Furcated \Fur"ca*ted\, a. [L. furca fork.
   See {Fork}.]
   Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

59 Moby Thesaurus words for "furcate":
      V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angle, angle off, angular, arboreal,
      arborescent, arboriform, bend, bent, biforked, bifurcate,
      bifurcated, branch, branch out, branched, branching, branchlike,
      cornered, crank, crook, crooked, crotched, dendriform, dendritic,
      divaricate, elbow, fork, forked, forking, forklike, furcal,
      geniculate, geniculated, hook, hooked, jagged, knee-shaped,
      pointed, pronged, ramify, ramous, saw-toothed, sawtooth, serrate,
      sharp, sharp-cornered, stem, swerve, tree-shaped, treelike,
      tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, veer, zag, zig, zigzag