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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches;
- Example: "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"
- Example: "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"
- Example: "a forked river"
- Example: "a forked tail"
- Example: "forked lightning"
- Example: "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
[syn: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Biramous \Bi*ra"mous\, a. [Pref. bi- + ramous.] (Biol.)
   Having, or consisting of, two branches.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

biramous
    adj 1: 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" [syn: bifurcate, biramous, branched,
           forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy]