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  • 61angularity — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Quality of having angles Nouns 1. (quality of having an angle) angularity, obliquity; angle, notch, fork, bifurcation; elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, shoulder, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke; zigzag,… …

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  • 62fork — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. bifurcate, diverge, separate, branch off. See disjunction, angularity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A furcated implement] Syn. table fork, hay fork, pitchfork, manure fork, trident, prong, spear, scepter …

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  • 63bisection — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Division into two parts. < N PARAG:bisection >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 bisection bisection bipartition Sgm: N 1 dichotomy dichotomy subdichotomy Sgm: N 1 halving halving &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 dimidiation dimidiation …

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  • 64Angularity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Angularity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 angularity angularity angularness Sgm: N 1 aduncity aduncity Sgm: N 1 angle angle cusp bend Sgm: N 1 fold fold &c. 258 Sgm: N …

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  • 65fork — [OE] Fork comes from Latin furca, a word of unknown origin which denoted ‘two pronged fork or stake’. It provided most of the Romance and Celtic languages with their terms for ‘fork’, as well as English (French fourche, for instance, Italian… …

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  • 66bifurcation — 1610s, the point at which something splits in two, noun of action from BIFURCATE (Cf. bifurcate) (v.). Meaning division into two forks is from 1640s …

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  • 67bifurcata —   , bifurcatum   L. bis, twice; furca, fork; ata, possessing.   1) Inner ligule bifurcate. Merostachys bifurcata   2) panicle branches bifurcate. Panicum bifurcatum …

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  • 68fork — [OE] Fork comes from Latin furca, a word of unknown origin which denoted ‘two pronged fork or stake’. It provided most of the Romance and Celtic languages with their terms for ‘fork’, as well as English (French fourche, for instance, Italian… …

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  • 69Dacrymyces — noun type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae: fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa • Syn: ↑genus Dacrymyces • Hypernyms: ↑fungus genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Dacrymycetaceae, ↑family Dacrymycetaceae * * * ˌdakrəˈmīˌsēz …

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  • 70bi|forked — «BY FRKT», adjective. = bifurcate. (Cf. ↑bifurcate) …

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