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Furcation

noun
1.
The place where something divides into branches.  Synonym: forking.



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... thoroughly distinct. It is of equally robust growth, but its handsomely arching fronds, which are from 3 feet to 4 feet in length, are produced in great abundance from a central tuft or agglomeration of crowns. Its most distinct characteristic is the furcation of the pinn, which are all of the same dimensions, whether sterile or fertile; they are all opposite and closely set along the mid-rib, whereas those of N. davallioides are set much further apart. In the barren pinn which are only situated on the lower portion of the frond, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 • Various



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