divaricated

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dʌɪˈvæɹɪkeɪtɪd/

Adjective

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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

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divaricated

  1. simple past and past participle of divaricate