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furca

furca noun: a forked structure, a fork-like part.

Noun

furca (plural furca or furcae)

  1. A forked structure, a fork-like part.
    • Сaudal duct splits up in front of furcae into two canals reaching middle of furcae, where it opens with pores.2023 July, A.V. Izrailskaia, V.V. Besprozvannykh, “Neodiplostomum cf. seoulense (Seo, Rim, Lee, 1964) sensu Pyo et al., 2014 (Trematoda: Diplostomidae Poirier, 1886): morphology, life cycle, and...
    • It has a mesosternum with well-developed, sessile furca. The arms of the mesosternal furca have a broad median and strictured and hemispherical apical part.2024, Mariusz Kanturski, Yerim Lee, “Miyalachnus—A New Lachninae Aphid Genus from Japan (Insecta, Hemiptera, Aphididae)”, in Insects, volume 15, number 3, →DOI, page 210

Forms of furca

pluralfurca
pluralfurcae

Origin of furca

From New Latin furca (“two-pronged fork”)

Questions about furca

What does furca mean?
Furca means a forked structure, a fork-like part.
What part of speech is furca?
Furca is a noun.
What is the plural of furca?
The plural of furca is furca.

Words near furca in the dictionary

  1. furburgers
  2. Furbush
  3. Furbushes
  4. Furby
  5. Furbys
  6. furca
  7. furcae
  8. furcal
  9. furcap
  10. furcaps
  11. furcarbanil

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