fork-like

1. 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”

   Synonymsbifurcatebiramousbranchedforkedforficateprongedprongy

   Similardivided

Questions about fork-like

What does fork-like mean?

fork-like means "resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches".

How many syllables are in fork-like?

fork-like has 2 syllables: for-k-like. The stress falls on "for".

What is another word for fork-like?

Close synonyms include bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, forficate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fork-like a common word?

fork-like is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.