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.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
While they run on together, the closest translation may be considered as the best; but when they divaricate, each must take its natural course.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
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.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
The book fell upon her knees, and dreamily she watched the perspective open and divaricate.
From Parrot & Co. by MacGrath, Harold
The polypidom is five or six inches high, perhaps more; stem slender, branches long, divaricate at rightangles, not opposite.
