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say it: BIF-ur-kayt
bifurcate is a verb and adjective meaning "split or divide into two". It carries 3 recorded senses.
split or divide into two
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bifurcate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.