forficate > define

Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, pronged, prongy

(a.) Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary