DIVARICATE

divaricate

(verb) spread apart; “divaricate one’s fingers”

divaricate

(verb) branch off; “The road divaricates here”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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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

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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

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