(a.) Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork.

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