| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches.[Wordnet]
2. Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.[Websters] 3. Being biramous. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb forficately.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (forficately) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective forficate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FORFICATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Etymology:Forficate \For"fi*cate\, adjective. [Latin expression forfex, forficis, shears.]. (references) |
