Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1.
divide into three;
- Example: "The road trifurcates at the bridge"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Trifurcate \Tri*fur"cate\, Trifurcated \Tri*fur"ca*ted\, a. [L.
trifurcus; tri- (see Tri-) + furca fork.]
Having three branches or forks; trichotomous.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
trifurcate
v 1: divide into three; "The road trifurcates at the bridge"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "trifurcate":
V-shaped, Y-shaped, arboreal, arborescent, arboriform, biforked,
bifurcate, bifurcated, branched, branching, branchlike, crotched,
deltoid, dendriform, dendritic, forked, forking, forklike, furcate,
pronged, ramous, three-cornered, three-dimensional, three-footed,
three-pronged, three-sided, tree-shaped, treelike, triangular,
triangulate, triarch, trichotomous, tricorn, tricornered,
tricuspid, trident, tridental, tridentlike, trifid, triflorate,
triflorous, trifurcated, trigonal, trigonoid, trigrammatic,
trihedral, trilateral, trimerous, triparted, tripartite, tripodic,
triquetral, triquetrous, trisected