The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
To diverge; to be divaricate.
--Woodward.
Divaricate \Di*var"i*cate\, v. t. To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.
Divaricate \Di*var"i*cate\, a. [L. divaricatus, p. p.]
Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.
(Biol.) Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc.
Wiktionary
With wide angles between branches. v
to spread apart; to diverge, to branch off
WordNet
v. branch off; "The road divaricates here"
spread apart; "divaricate one's fingers"
Wikipedia
Divaricate means branching, or separation, or a degree of separation. The angle between branches is wide.
Usage examples of "divaricate".
Sometimes they are, in the different species, long or short, leafy, branched, dense, arched, and divaricate, but, although at any time when their fresh foliage is upon them, and when they are so close together that the eye can take them all in at a glance, their distinctions are fairly clear, autumn is the time to see them in their most definite and beautiful form.
The divaricated follicles of their coats provide good insulation, with a layer of trapped air next to the skin.
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.
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.
Now that he had regained his health -- in decidedly advanced medical conditions not favored by divaricates -- he was eager to tell his story again, to provide all the details he knew.
To pass undetected among the Lenk divaricates, who carried no such implants, I had been stripped of my extra voices and eyes and minds.
The divaricates had not brought weapons with them, the informer had said, yet this gun was metal, heavy, smoothly machined to judge by the sound.
It was an anachronism -- a late twentieth-century design favored by the divaricates, who shunned all later technology.
I went to the old _Greater Starship Encyclopedia_ that had come as standard issue with these slates when they had been made -- reproductions of twentieth-century antiques -- for divaricates on Thistledown.
Naderite women -- particularly divaricates -- seemed a different breed from Geshel women.
Something had changed in the divaricates on their arrival in Lamarckia.
But divaricates had generally had no more children on Thistledown than other Naderites, no more even than most Geshels.
The divaricates kept their political scheme, and never did I sense a place for me in that scheme.
Accanto a esso, più vicino alla figura con le membra divaricate, un quadrato diviso in quattro, più vicino ancora qualcosa che somigliava a una saetta.
Era in effetti una croce e al centro c'era un uomo con le membra divaricate, ma un esame più attento le rivelò che su tutti e quattro i bracci della croce c'erano altri simboli che sembravano repliche deformi o evolute della figura centrale.