Furcate

From Medieval Latin furcÄtus ("forked, branched"), from Latin furca ("fork").

Full definition of furcate

1700, Friday, May 17, John Houghton, But that which I believe yields a great deal of our turpentine, is the fir-tree or deal, which is a coniferous tree, evergreen, whose cones are of the lesser sort, having long leaves, either that whose leaves encompass and cover the branches, bearing long cones hanging downwards as she male fir-tree or pitch-tree; or that whose leaves grow from each side of the stalk, being more flat than those of yew, green on the upper side, and whitish underneath, furcated at the end, bearing cones shorter and thicker, growing erect, as the female fir-tree.
1778, Emanuel Mendes Da Costa, Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniaeor, or The British conchology, These ridges are prominent, about the thickness of a coarse thread, very numerous, irregular, and run into one another, but towards the bottom, always furcate or divide.
1836, Hermann Burmeister, A Manual of entomology, In Dyticus it even furcates, and with both prongs of the fork it encloses the intestine, and lower down the nervous cord
1836, A Manual of entomology, Descending keel of the pronotum, which divides into two furcating lamella