multifurcate

multifurcate

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ furcate

Adjective

multifurcate (not comparable)

1. Multiply divided or forked.

Verb

multifurcate (third-person singular simple present multifurcates, present participle multifurcating, simple past and past participle multifurcated)

1. To divide or fork into many channels or branches.
   • 2015 August 5, “Structural and Developmental Disparity in the Tentacles of the Moon Jellyfish Aurelia sp . 1”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0134741:

     True medusa tentacles occur later in development through the distal and lateral expansion of eight tongue-like processes on the bell’s oral surface, which multifurcate into hundreds of small tentacles.