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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DIVARICATE

v.i.[L., to straddle. ] To open; to fork; to part into two branches.

 

DIVARICATE

v.t.to divide into two branches.

 

DIVARICATE

a.In botany, standing out wide. A divaricate branch forms an obtuse angle with the stem. It is applied also to panicles, peduncles and petioles.

 

DIVARICATED

pp. Parted into two branches.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DIVARICATE

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.

 

DIVARICATE

DIVARICATE Di *var "i *cate, v. t.

 

Defn: To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.

 

DIVARICATE

Di *var "i *cate, a. Etym: [L. divaricatus, p. p.]

 

1. Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.

 

2. (Biol.)

 

Defn: Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc.

 

DIVARICATELY

DIVARICATELY Di *var "i *cate *ly, adv.

 

Defn: With divarication.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

divaricate

di var i cate ▶verb |dīˈvariˌkāt, di- daɪˈvɛrəkeɪt | [ no obj. ] technical or literary stretch or spread apart; diverge widely. ▶adjective |-kit, -ˌkāt daɪˈvɛrəkeɪt |Botany (of a branch ) coming off the stem almost at a right angle. DERIVATIVES di var i ca tion |-ˌvariˈkāSHən |noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin divaricat- ‘stretched apart, ’ from the verb divaricare, from di- (expressing intensive force ) + varicare ‘stretch the legs apart ’ (from varicus ‘straddling ’).

 

Oxford Dictionary

divaricate

divaricate |dʌɪˈvarɪkeɪt, dɪ -| ▶verb [ no obj. ] technical or literary stretch or spread apart; diverge widely: her crow's feet are divaricating like deltas. ▶adjective Botany (of a branch ) coming off the stem almost at a right angle. DERIVATIVES divarication |-ˈkeɪʃ (ə )n |noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin divaricat- ‘stretched apart ’, from the verb divaricare, from di- (expressing intensive force ) + varicare ‘stretch the legs apart ’ (from varicus ‘straddling ’).