divaricate

VERB
  1. branch off
    The road divaricates here
  2. spread apart
    divaricate one's fingers
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How To Use divaricate In A Sentence

  • Racemes two, both sessile, or one sessile and the other pedicelled on a peduncle which is more or less sheathed by a proper spathe, divaricate or deflexed. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • It should be noted that typical K. kulumbensis has a Strophomena-lype resupinate shell (the ventral valve being largely concave) bearing sharp, divaricate costae.
  • Racemes two, both sessile, or one sessile and the other pedicelled on a peduncle which is more or less sheathed by a proper spathe, divaricate or deflexed. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Stems are many, tufted, slender, creeping and rooting, or ascending and suberect, simple or branched, 6 to 20 inches long and leafy and leaves bifarious and divaricate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The former is a tall plant with very narrow panicle and spikelets and the latter either tall or short and with a panicle bearing very slender divaricate branches. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Stems are many, tufted, slender, creeping and rooting, or ascending and suberect, simple or branched, 6 to 20 inches long and leafy and leaves bifarious and divaricate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Even to sit where a woman has sat, especially with divaricated thighs, as though to grant the last favours, most especially with previously well uplifted white sateen coatpans. Ulysses
  • The talk itself was far more desultory, and in consequence of questions, objections, and explanations, divaricated much from the comparatively direct line I have endeavoured to give it here. Wilfrid Cumbermede
  • Divergent: spreading out from a common base; in Coleoptera, tarsal claws are divergent when they spread out only a little; divaricate when they separate widely. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • It has strong divaricate ornamentation of coarse costae and/or small plicae, which bear low, close nodes, but which cover both the anterior and posterior faces of the shell.
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