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DIVARICATE, verb intransitive [Latin , to straddle.] To open; to fork; to part into two branches.
DIVARICATE, verb transitive to divide into two branches.
DIVARICATE, adjective In botany, standing out wide. A divaricate branch forms an obtuse angle with the stem. It is applied also to panicles, peduncles and petioles.
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