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Definition of Furcations
1. furcation [n] - See also: furcation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Furcations
Literary usage of Furcations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1907)
"Wings with brown and black, most noticeable at furcations and tips of veins...4.
... Wings with dark brown at furcations and tip of wings nil i ..."
2. Phycologia Australica; or, A history of Australian seaweeds by William Henry Harvey (1863)
"ones somewhat cuneate below the furcations, all very obtuse or round-topped ;
the margin throughout sharply and coarsely toothed, ..."
3. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"The distances between two furcations are very unequal, and manifestly dependent
upon the amount of nourishment being greater or less. ..."
4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1869)
"... ones are five or six times the length of the primary ones, and without any
secondary furcations, while at other times one or more of the ..."
5. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1902)
"Our specimen shows the tri furcations in the last whorl mentioned by Castillo
and Aguilera, has the same (or possibly one less) number of costae on this ..."
6. A Monograph of the British Spongiadæ by James Scott Bowerbank (1864)
"53), but in this case the radii of the extreme furcations are not all in the same
plane, as appears always to be the case with those of the secondary radii, ..."
7. Transactions of the Geological Society of London by Geological Society of London (1856)
"Dorsal lobe as large as the superior lateral, bifurcated, the furcations trifurcated.
Intermediate pinnated but unbranched auxiliary lobes between the ..."