Definition of bifurcated
:divided into two branches or parts
- This near-earth asteroid appears as a bifurcated structure, consisting of two distinct lobes that seem to be in contact.
- —Richard P. Binzel et al.
- The town is a bifurcated community—two distinct communities in one, really.
- —Dennis Farney
- … the strange bifurcated world of whiteness and blackness in which I was born and reared.
- —William Styron
