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divaricate

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

verb (used without object)

divaricated, divaricating.
  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

  • 徱ˌˈپDz, noun
  • 徱ˈٱ, adverb
  • 徱ˈˌپԲ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • 徱·i·ٱ· adverb
  • 徱·i·iԲ· adverb
  • 徱·i·tDz noun
  • 徱·i·tǰ noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of divaricate1

1615–25; < Latin īٳܲ (past participle of ī ), equivalent to ī di- 2 + - (base of to straddle; prevaricate ) + -ٳܲ -ate 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of divaricate1

C17: from Latin ī to stretch apart, from di- ² + to stand astride
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One minute they were vexed, their limbs divaricate, their movements speedy, as you'd imagine the mighty zebra of the plains.

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Cardinal teeth small, fragile, variable in number, and rarely divaricated.

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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.

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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.

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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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