Definition of Divaricate

1. Verb. Branch off. "The road divaricates here"

Generic synonyms: Diverge

2. Verb. Spread apart. "Divaricate one's fingers"
Generic synonyms: Open, Spread, Spread Out, Unfold

Definition of Divaricate

1. v. i. To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.

2. v. t. To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.

3. a. Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.

Definition of Divaricate

1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]

Medical Definition of Divaricate

1. Widely spreading. (09 Oct 1997)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Divaricate

divagates
divagating
divagation
divagations
divalence
divalence
divalences
divalent
divalent
divalents
divalproex sodium
divan
divans
divan bed
divaricate (current term)
divaricate (current term)
divaricated
divaricates
divaricating
divarication
divarication
divarications
divaricator
divas
dive
dive-bomb
dive-bombing
divebomb
divebombed
divebombing

Literary usage of Divaricate

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1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Branches divaricate ; email beads in I-Mded racemes . 39. A. n'mt Branches ascending, terminated bv solitary beade (09) A. ..."

2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Spineless ; leaves obovate, rounded at the base, short-petioled (Iх lung) ; cymes divaricate, sessile or short-peduncled ; flowers clustered ; sterile calyx ..."

3. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"2) stems slender straggling and ranch branched, the branches divaricate, loaves very much more slender, flowers minute. ..."

4. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"... single leaf or br. as long or sometimes twice as long as the quite smooth divaricate or often in fr. deflexed lj-3 millim. long, mostly binate pedicels. ..."

5. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"The large three- sided follicles are widely divaricate, with an incurved apex and comose seeds. The plants of this genus abound in milky juice, ..."

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