[f. FORK v. + -ING2.] That forks; characterized by forking.
1851. Glenny, Handbk. Fl. Gard., 221. The plants have a forking and somewhat horizontal habit of growth.
1877–84. F. E. Hulme, Wild Fl., V. 94. The wood geranium, G. sylvaticum, grows from one to three feet high, the stems forking freely, and bearing a mass of purple blossoms at their extremities.
1892. G. Atherton, The Conquest of Doña Jacoba, in Blackw. Mag., CLI. April, 549. A forest of willows cut by a forking creek, and held apart here and there by fields of yellow mustard blossoms fluttering in their pale-green nests, or meadows carpeted with the tiny white and yellow flowers of early summer.
