divaricated

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌɪˈvæɹɪkeɪtɪd/

Adjective

divaricated (comparative more divaricated, superlative most divaricated)

  1. Spread-out, divergent, especially of a branch etc. which is at nearly ninety degrees to the main stem.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
      The warm impress of her warm form. 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.

Verb

divaricated

  1. simple past and past participle of divaricate
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