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Definition of Forklike
1. resembling a fork [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forklike
Literary usage of Forklike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"It was an impressive scene that gathering under the giant kauris. The huge pile
of gum-logs shot forklike tongues of flame high into the forest gloom, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1847)
"The sword f is n piece of wood, so chamfered from i to k, that it appears forklike,
and embraces the middle piece of the frame ; its centre of motion is the ..."
3. Henrik Krøyer's Publications on Pelagic Marine Copepoda (1838-1849) by Carl C. Damkaer, David M. Damkaer (1979)
"basal part, a long, one-segmented outer ramus or rather stylus, which has a linear
form, and at the end is cleft forklike into three spines or points, ..."
4. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1901)
"... of a forklike, Y-shaped division at an angle between 150° and 160° into two
divisions, an ascending and a descending branch. While Golgi asserts that ..."
5. Essentials of Biology Presented in Problems: By George William Hunter by George William Hunter (1911)
"... forklike ventral-lying pair, the maxilla, and a pair of hard cutting jaws,
the mandibles. These parts are covered when not in use by two flaps, ..."
6. Forest Planting: A Treatise on the Care of Timber Lands and the Restoration by Henry NIcholas Jarchow (1893)
"In such cases no certain rule can be given, except not to allow the tops of the
trees to go into forklike shapes. PLANTING WITH THE BALL. ..."
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