bifurcate vs furcated

bifurcate

adj
  • Divided or forked into two; bifurcated. 

  • Having bifurcations. 

verb
  • To cause to bifurcate. 

  • To divide or fork into two channels or branches. 

furcated

adj
  • forked or branched 

How often have the words bifurcate and furcated occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )