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Religion portal; Image of Furcas from Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal. In demonology, Furcas (also spelled Forcas) is a Knight of Hell (the rank of Knight is unique to him), and rules 20 legions of demons.
Furca, a prehistoric arthropod; Furca (springtail), an anatomical structure in springtail entognaths. Caudal furca ("tail fork"), part of the telson of some crustaceans; Furcula, the wishbone of birds and some dinosaurs; Furcula a genus of Noctuid moths; Any small forked structure of animal anatomy
Forked cross Forked cross in St. Mary's in the Capitol, Cologne. A forked cross, is a Gothic cross in the form of the letter Y that is also known as a crucifixus dolorosus, furca, ypsilon cross, Y-cross, robber's cross or thief's cross.
The furcula, or furca is a forked, tail-like appendage. It is present in most species of springtails , and in them it is attached ventrally to the fourth abdominal segment. The organ most often is present in species of Collembola that lives in the upper soil layers where it is used for jumping to avoid predators. [ 1 ]
Furca (Latin for "fork") is an extinct genus of marrellomorph arthropod known from the Sandbian stage (upper Ordovician period) of the Czech Republic, [1] with a single currently described species, Furca bohemica.
Most species have an abdominal, tail-like appendage known as a furcula (or furca). It is located on the fourth abdominal segment of springtails and is folded beneath the body, held under tension by a small structure called the retinaculum (or tenaculum). When released, it snaps against the substrate, flinging the springtail into the air and ...
The origin of the word hourquette is unclear. French Wikipedia speculates the word is derived from a Gascon given name, via the Latin furca meaning 'fork'. [2] The word is very similar to the Spanish noun horqueta 'fork' and French noun fourchette 'fork', both of which have etymological roots in the same Latin word furca.
naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret: You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back: You must take the basic nature of something into account. – Horace, Epistles, Book I, epistle X, line 24. navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse: to sail is necessary; to live is not necessary