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Definition of Divaricate
1. Verb. Branch off. "The road divaricates here"
2. Verb. Spread apart. "Divaricate one's fingers"
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. Verb. to spread apart; to diverge, to branch off ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Divaricate
1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Medical Definition of Divaricate
1. Widely spreading. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divaricate
Literary usage of Divaricate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
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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