adjective
Etymology: from past participle of bifurcate (I)
1. : bifurcate
2. : combining or made up of two aspects, factors, or parts
a bifurcated E layer in the ionosphere
socially bifurcated populations
sometimes : bifocal 2
Freneau's peculiarly bifurcated view of the Indian, his agrarianism and primitivism, his warm humanitarianism — J.T.Flanagan