divaricate

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One minute they were vexed, their limbs divaricate, their movements speedy, as you'd imagine the mighty zebra of the plains.

From The Guardian

Cardinal teeth small, fragile, variable in number, and rarely divaricated.

From Project Gutenberg

Very similar, but smoother and deeper green, with more slender, linear-cylindric, more or less flexuous spikes, the lateral ones spreading or divaricate, and the sepals more frequently acute or acuminate.

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Stems are many, tufted, slender, creeping and rooting, or ascending and suberect, simple or branched, 6 to 20 inches long and leafy and leaves bifarious and divaricate.

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Divergent: spreading out from a common base; in Coleoptera, tarsal claws are divergent when they spread out only a little; divaricate when they separate widely.

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