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Definition of Furcating
1. furcate [v] - See also: furcate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Furcating
Literary usage of Furcating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1869)
"The primary ternate rays are usually short ; and the secondary furcating ones
are five or six times the length of the primary ones, and without any ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1900)
"T, to 5 furcating with M\ which ascends radius for about one-third of distance
from cross-vein to external margin. Af2 from upper corner of discal cell, ..."
3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1872)
"Discal cell closed by a -' veinlet;'' vein 4 thrown off from a furcating median
veinlet at the middle of the discal cell; 5 thrown off from the " veinlet," ..."
4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"283, the centre of the group, and the furcating mode of branching; in Fig.
284, a portion of a brauchtet, and 285, same enlarged. Figs. ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1885)
"It is cylindrical, bi- and tri-furcating. The cells elongate, oval, rather deep,
almost flat ; there are from three to four in a trans- Terse row, ..."
6. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1889)
"Sponges rather large, originally probably of inverted pear- shaped outline,
consisting of five bi- or tri-furcating compressed lobes springing from a short ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1759)
"arms in the warm Bath-water every night, and furcating them in warm flannel after
it, (without either pumping it on them, or ufmg the linament) and taking ..."
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