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