What is the meaning of branched?

verb

• Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures.
  • usage: "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
  • synonyms: ramify, branch
• Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.
  • usage: "The road forks"
  • synonyms: branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate

adjective

• Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy
• Having branches.
  • synonyms: branching, ramose, ramous, ramate