pronged

3 definitions found

pronged - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pronged \Pronged\, a.
     Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a
     three-pronged fork.
     [1913 Webster]

pronged - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pronged
      adj 1: having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a
             three-tined fork" [syn: pronged, 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, fork-like, forficate,
         pronged, prongy]

pronged - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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