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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Divaricate \Di*var"i*cate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Divaricated};
p. pr & vb n. {Divaricating}.] [L. divaricatus p. p. of
divaricare to stretch apart; di- = dis- + varicare to
straddle, fr varicus straddling, fr varus stretched
outwards.]
1. To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
2. To diverge; to be divaricate. --Woodward.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Divaricate \Di*var"i*cate\, v. t.
To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Divaricate \Di*var"i*cate\, a. [L. divaricatus p. p.]
1. Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.
2. (Biol.) Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the
branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color
markings on animals, etc
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
divaricate
v 1: branch off "The road divaricates here"
2: spread apart; "divaricate one's fingers"
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