forficate

forficate has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.
• a.. resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"