forficate

Adjective

for=fi=cate

WORDNET DICTIONARY

forficate(s = adj.all) bifurcate, biramous, branched, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy - 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"

forficate, a. [L. forfex, forficis, shears.].

Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds. [1913 Webster]