DIVARICATE
divaricate
(verb) spread apart; “divaricate one’s fingers”
divaricate
(verb) branch off; “The road divaricates here”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
divaricate (third-person singular simple present divaricates, present participle divaricating, simple past and past participle divaricated)
(ambitransitive) To spread apart; to (cause to) diverge or branch off.
Adjective
divaricate (comparative more divaricate, superlative most divaricate)
(botany) Having wide angles between the branches.
Anagrams
• radicative, vicariated
Source: Wiktionary
Di*var"i*cate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Divaricated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Divaricating.] Etym: [L. divaricatus, p. p. of divaricare to stretch
apart; di- = dis- + varicare to straddle, fr. varicus straddling, fr.
varus stretched outwards.]
1. To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
2. To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.
Di*var"i*cate, v. t.
Definition: To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.
Di*var"i*cate, a. Etym: [L. divaricatus, p. p.]
1. Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a
tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition