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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
divaricate /dʌɪˈvarɪkeɪt, dɪ-/

▶verb technical or literary stretch or spread apart. ▶adjective Botany (of a branch) coming off the stem almost at a right angle.

– derivatives
divarication noun.

– origin C17: from L. divaricat-, divaricare ‘stretch apart’.

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