资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Forficate \For"fi*cate\, a. [L. forfex, forficis, shears.]
   (Zo["o]l.)
   Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.

资料来源 : WordNet®

forficate
     adj : 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},
            {pronged}, {prongy}]