multibranched

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ branched.

Adjective

multibranched (comparative more multibranched, superlative most multibranched)

1. Having more than one branch.
   • 2009 May 15, Edward Rothstein, “Come Meet Your Folks: Warm Blood Is Required”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     So these extreme mammals really are, in a strange way, our relatives, a multibranched, variegated web of life forms, many extinct (as are 99 percent of all species that ever lived) but some of which are still being discovered: the last display shows a reconstruction of a striped rabbit, a new species discovered in 1999 in Laos.

Synonyms

• twiggy

Translations

having more than one branch

• Finnish: monihaarainen

References

• “multi-branched”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.