"branched" in the verb sense
1. ramify, branch
grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
"these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
2. branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate
divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
"The road forks"
"branched" in the adjective sense
1. bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy
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"
2. branched, branching, ramose, ramous, ramate
having branches
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