[f. med.L. bifurcātus: see prec.] = BIFORKED; see also quot. 1880.

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1835.  Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 342. The filament … is in Crambe bifurcate.

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1880.  Gray, Bot. Text-bk., 399. Bifurcate, two-forked … But it may mean bis furcatus, forked and again forked.

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