divaricate

The verb is first attested in 1623, the adjective in 1788; borrowed from Latin dīvāricātus, perfect passive participle of dīvāricō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + vāricō (“to straddle, to stretch (the legs) apart”), from vāricus (“straddling”).

• IPA^(key): /daɪˈvæɹɪkeɪt/

divaricate (third-person singular simple present divaricates, present participle divaricating, simple past and past participle divaricated)

1. (ambitransitive) To spread apart; to (cause to) diverge or branch off.

divaricate (comparative more divaricate, superlative most divaricate)

1. (botany) Having wide angles between the branches.

• radicative, vicariated

divaricate

1. inflection of divaricare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

divaricate f pl

1. feminine plural of divaricato

• radicatevi, recidivata

dīvāricāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dīvāricō