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diˈvaricating ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That divaricates or branches off in different directions; spreading out, diverging.
1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 154 More correctly named divaricating hairs. 1874Coues Birds N.-W. 14 It would seem to have two divaricating lines of migration. 1885H. O. Forbes Nat. Wand. E. Archip. vi. ii. 431 High trees whose trunk was divided into four divaricating arms. Hence diˈvaricatingly adv.
1870Hooker Stud. Flora 374 Stem dichotomously and divaricatingly branched. |