ramificação — meaning in English

English meaning

• crotch noun The area of the body where the legs meet the torso, around the genitals.
• fork noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
• offshoot noun Something which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.
• ramification noun A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc.

Senses

ramificação is used for these senses in English:

• crotch The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place.
• fork (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.

crotch — full definition

1. noun The area of the body where the legs meet the torso, around the genitals.
2. noun The point where something forks or branches into two parts, such as a tree limb or a pair of trousers.

fork — full definition

1. noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
2. noun A point where a road, path, or river splits into two directions.
3. noun A separate version of a software project or dataset created from an existing one.
4. verb To split into two or more branches or directions.

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