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Definition of Trifurcate
1. Verb. Divide into three. "The road trifurcates at the bridge"
Definition of Trifurcate
1. a. Having three branches or forks; trichotomous.
Definition of Trifurcate
1. Adjective. Forked, with three tines or points. ¹
2. Verb. To divide or fork into three channels or branches. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trifurcate
1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trifurcate
Literary usage of Trifurcate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Productive Farm Crops by Edward Gerrard Montgomery (1916)
"On left, the hooded or trifurcate type, and awned barley on right. rye. Neither do
they have a long, fixed, dormant period as winter wheat and rye, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"trifurcate and normal awns. 5. Narrow and broad glumes. 6. Two-row and six-row.
7. The decipiens type and two-row. 8. The decipiens type and six-row give an ..."
3. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"... stout, curved bristle; on the fourth segment is a long, trifurcate bristle,
... followed laterad by a trifurcate bristle and antero-laterad by a ..."
4. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"... stout, curved bristle; on the fourth segment is a long, trifurcate bristle,
... followed laterad by a trifurcate bristle and antero-laterad by a ..."
5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"trifurcate; segments long, slender, filiform. ... leaves all submersed and sessile
trifurcate with repeatedly and very closely forked rigid segments ..."
6. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"In the trifurcate type an anterior descending ramus, accompanied by 2 veins ...
In addition to the 3 branches of the trifurcate type there is a fourth chief ..."
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