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Definition of Divaricates
1. divaricate [v] - See also: divaricate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divaricates
Literary usage of Divaricates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1906)
"Aster divaricates was cultivated near London by Peter Collinson in 1765 ; in Hort.
... by the name of A. divaricates (fide Nées, Gen. ..."
2. Miscellanea Curiosa: Being a Collection of Some of the Principal Phaenomena by Royal Society (Great Britain), Edmond Halley (1705)
"... (hoots out the Cartilaginous Rings, and divaricates the Branches of the Trachea,
and by them extends and ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"... blades of the maxillae, becomes tense and divaricates them so as to secure
their steadiness of motion and to give free play to the intervening labium. ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1869)
"The wjo« M///di vision has nothing in common with, indeed tends to obliterate,
the seasons of the Church, and so divaricates and disturbs the association of ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1832)
"This vessel, midway between its origin and the place where it divaricates into
the two trunks distributed to the lungs, bulges at the interspace between the ..."
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