 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pronged
adjective
1: having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a
three-tined fork" [syn: {tined}]
2: 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" [syn: {bifurcate},
{biramous}, {branched}, {forked}, {forficate}, {prongy}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pronged \Pronged\, adjective
Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a
three-pronged fork.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "pronged":
V-shaped, Y-shaped, acanthoid, acanthous, acicular, acuate,
aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, arboreal, arborescent,
arboriform, barbed, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, branched,
branching, branchlike, cornuted, crotched, cusped, cuspidate,
dendriform, dendritic, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, hispid,
horned, horny, mucronate, needle-pointed, needle-sharp, pointed,
ramous, sharp-pointed, spiculate, spiked, spiky, spined, spinous,
spiny, tapered, tapering, tined, toothed, tree-shaped, treelike,
tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, unbated
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