divaricate
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Etymology edit
Latin divaricat-, past participle stem of divaricare, from di- + varicare (“stretch (the legs) apart”), from varicus (“straddling”).
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divaricate (third-person singular simple present divaricates, present participle divaricating, simple past and past participle divaricated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To spread apart; to (cause to) diverge or branch off.
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divaricate (comparative more divaricate, superlative most divaricate)
- (botany) Having wide angles between the branches.
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divaricate
- inflection of divaricare:
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divaricate f pl
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dīvāricāte