divaricatedadj.
Widely divergent from each other or from a stem; widely or greatly branched; divaricate.
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1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 301 Its Tail being..divaricated towards the End.
1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 68 The stalk..is much divaricated and branched.
1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. iii. vi. 208 Mistletoe..the beauty of its divaricated branches of pale-green.
1864 Huxley in Reader 5 Mar. The great toe is widely divaricated from the others.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. ix. 174 The languages in question are the divaricated representatives of a single tongue.
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