1. shaped like or resembling scissors; having two branches or parts that cross or spread apart like scissor blades
Usage: technical; biology

Examples

• The insect's forficate antennae helped it sense its environment.
• The forficate tail of the swallow allows for precise aerial maneuvers.
• Biologists noted the forficate structure of the organism's appendages.
• The forficate branches of the plant spread outward in opposite directions.