To fork or divide into two branches; to split into a fork-like shape.
From Latin furca (fork) + -ate verb suffix; created as a scientific verb meaning to fork or split into branches.
Rivers furcate all the time—when one stream splits into two different channels, it's literally doing what the word says, splitting like the tines of a fork!
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