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divaricate
[ verb dahy-var-i-keyt, dih-; adjective dahy-var-uh-kit, -keyt, dih- ]
verb (used without object)
- to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- Botany, Zoology. to branch at a wide angle.
adjective
- spread apart; widely divergent.
- Botany, Zoology. branching at a wide angle.
divaricate
verb
- intr (esp of branches) to diverge at a wide angle
adjective
- branching widely; forked
Derived Forms
- diˌvariˈcation, noun
- diˈvaricately, adverb
- diˈvariˌcatingly, adverb
Other Words From
- di·vari·cate·ly adverb
- di·vari·cating·ly adverb
- di·vari·cation noun
- di·vari·cator noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of divaricate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of divaricate1
Example Sentences
One minute they were vexed, their limbs divaricate, their movements speedy, as you'd imagine the mighty zebra of the plains.
Cardinal teeth small, fragile, variable in number, and rarely divaricated.
Very similar, but smoother and deeper green, with more slender, linear-cylindric, more or less flexuous spikes, the lateral ones spreading or divaricate, and the sepals more frequently acute or acuminate.
Stems are many, tufted, slender, creeping and rooting, or ascending and suberect, simple or branched, 6 to 20 inches long and leafy and leaves bifarious and divaricate.
Divergent: spreading out from a common base; in Coleoptera, tarsal claws are divergent when they spread out only a little; divaricate when they separate widely.
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