adjective
- Having prongs or tines; usually used in combination.
- usage: "a three-tined fork"
- synonyms: tined
- 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"
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