Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: branched
IPA transcription: [bɹ'æntʃt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy
    Meaning: resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
Usage examples
  • Then Amory branched off and found that Burne was deep in other things as well.
  • From this antechamber we came into another, very large, supported by columns, and lighted by several branched candlesticks.
  • "If you like," she said in a low voice, with one of her quick fluctuations of colour; but instead of taking the way he proposed she turned toward a narrow path which branched off obliquely through the trees.
  • When a Zinnia has a hard, stiff, tall flower, with a great many rows of petals piled up one on top of another, and when its habit is dwarfed to a mean degree of squatness, it looks to me both ugly and absurd, whereas a reasonably double one, well branched, and two feet high, is a handsome plant.