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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
prongy is an adjective meaning "resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches". It carries one recorded sense.
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 prongy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.