Meanings
adjectivemultifurcate (not comparable)
- not comparableMultiply divided or forked.
verbmultifurcate (third-person singular simple present multifurcates, present participle multifurcating, simple past and past participle multifurcated)
present singular third person multifurcates · participle present multifurcating · participle past multifurcated · past multifurcated
- To divide or fork into many channels or branches.
True medusa tentacles occur later in development through the distal and lateral expansion of eight tongue-like processes on the bell’s oral surface, which multifurcate into hundreds of small tentacles.
2015 August 5, “Structural and Developmental Disparity in the Tentacles of the Moon Jellyfish Aurelia sp . 1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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