Divaricate(a.) Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.
Divaricate(a.) Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc.
Divaricate(v. i.) To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
Divaricate(v. i.) To diverge; to be divaricate.
Divaricate(v. t.) To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.
Divaricated(imp. & p. p.) of Divaricate
Divaricately(adv.) With divarication.
Divaricating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divaricate
Divarication(n.) A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
Divarication(n.) An ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion.
Divarication(n.) A divergence of lines of color sculpture, or of fibers at different angles.
Divaricator(n.) One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.
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