pronged

pronged
    adj 1: having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a
           three-tined fork" [syn: {pronged}, {tined}]
    2: resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches;
       "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched
       hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river";
       "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in
       poor soil may develop prongy roots" [syn: {bifurcate},
       {biramous}, {branched}, {forked}, {fork-like}, {forficate},
       {pronged}, {prongy}]
    

Pronged \Pronged\, a.
   Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a
   three-pronged fork.
   [1913 Webster]
    

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "pronged":
      V-shaped, Y-shaped, acanthoid, acanthous, acicular, acuate,
      aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, arboreal, arborescent,
      arboriform, barbed, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, branched,
      branching, branchlike, cornuted, crotched, cusped, cuspidate,
      dendriform, dendritic, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, hispid,
      horned, horny, mucronate, needle-pointed, needle-sharp, pointed,
      ramous, sharp-pointed, spiculate, spiked, spiky, spined, spinous,
      spiny, tapered, tapering, tined, toothed, tree-shaped, treelike,
      tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, unbated