¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Divaricating
1. divaricate [v] - See also: divaricate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divaricating
Literary usage of Divaricating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"E.) Lea ves heart-shaped, with seven angles : lowermost lobes divaricating : (flower-stalks
corymbose, branched. E.) so justly celebrated for his researches ..."
2. The Grasses of Britain by Richard PARNELL (1845)
"... divaricating very conspicuously, and arising from the outer palea about
one-fourth from the summit ;—whereas in Bromus patulus the spikelets are longer, ..."
3. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1864)
"... rather large aréoles smaller towards the margin including sometimes smaller
aréoles or free and divaricating branched veinlets ; fertile fronds very ..."
4. The Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1834)
"Stems a line broad, much branched, divaricating and entangled, branches long,
set on all sides with very dense, short, divaricating, forked or trifid, ..."
5. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1874)
"(4) divaricating stems. Tt was chiefly I imagine owing to the frequency with
which the stems usually employed fell out that ..."
Other Resources:
