divaricate
(verb) spread apart; “divaricate one’s fingers”
divaricate
(verb) branch off; “The road divaricates here”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
divaricate (comparative more divaricate, superlative most divaricate)
(botany) Having wide angles between the branches.
• 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
17 March 2025
(noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
