Usually means: Shaped like or resembling scissors.
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  6. forficate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  10. forficate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  14. forficate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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▸ adjective:  (zoology, said mostly of tails of certain birds) Deeply forked

Similar:
fissilingual, roughtail, caudate, caudiform, curvicaudate, curvirostral, stripetail, long-tailed, cercal, whip-tailed, more...

Opposite:
unforked, unfurcated, unbranched

Types:
pinnate, palmate, paripinnate, bipinnate, tripinnate, biternate, multipinnate, more...

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Similar:
fissilingual, roughtail, caudate, caudiform, curvicaudate, curvirostral, stripetail, long-tailed, cercal, whip-tailed, more...

Opposite:
unforked, unfurcated, unbranched

Types:
pinnate, palmate, paripinnate, bipinnate, tripinnate, biternate, multipinnate, more...



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