furcate \FUR-keyt\, verb:
1. To form a fork; branch.
adjective:
1. Forked; branching.
The root systems of an ancient tree seemed to furcate and furrow the surface of his thighs, and where his skin was not covered in dark hair, it was strangely rippled with wild webs of some kind of tissue just beneath the skin.
-- Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
Just focus your attention on the eyes and let your mind furcate as it will.
-- Patrick Moran, Tsunami Sundog
Furcate is from the Medieval Latin word furcātus which meant "cloven."
1。形成一個叉;分支。
形容詞:
1。分叉;分支。
一個古老的樹的根系統似乎分叉和他的大腿溝的表面,他的皮膚,黑頭髮覆蓋,這是奇怪的一些組織的野生網皮下波紋。
- 邁克爾·Chabon,Kavalier及黏土驚人的冒險:一種新型的
對眼睛只集中你的注意力,讓你的心,因為它會分叉。
- 帕特里克·莫蘭,海嘯Sundog帶來;
分叉是“偶”。這意味著中世紀拉丁字furcātus
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