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divaricate

[ verb dahy-var-i-keyt, dih-; adjective dahy-var-uh-kit, -keyt, dih- ]

verb (used without object)

, di·var·i·cat·ed, di·var·i·cat·ing.
  1. to spread apart; branch; diverge.
  2. Botany, Zoology. to branch at a wide angle.


adjective

  1. spread apart; widely divergent.
  2. Botany, Zoology. branching at a wide angle.

divaricate

verb

  1. intr (esp of branches) to diverge at a wide angle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. branching widely; forked
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • diˌvariˈcation, noun
  • diˈvaricately, adverb
  • diˈvariˌcatingly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • di·vari·cate·ly adverb
  • di·vari·cating·ly adverb
  • di·vari·cation noun
  • di·vari·cator noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of divaricate1

1615–25; < Latin dīvāricātus (past participle of dīvāricāre ), equivalent to di- 2 + vāric- (base of vāricāre to straddle; prevaricate ) + -ātus -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of divaricate1

C17: from Latin dīvāricāre to stretch apart, from di- ² + vāricāre to stand astride
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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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