DIVARICATEv.i.
[L., to straddle.] To open; to fork; to part into two branches.
DIVARICATEv.t.
to divide into two branches.
DIVARICATEa.
In botany, standing out wide. A divaricate branch forms an obtuse angle with the stem. It is applied also to panicles, peduncles and petioles.