divaricate > define

verb

• Branch off.
  • usage: "The road divaricates here"
• Spread apart.
  • usage: "divaricate one's fingers"

• (a.) Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.
• (v.i.) To diverge; to be divaricate.
• (a.) Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree or as lines of sculpture or color markings on animals, etc.
• (v.i.) To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
• (v.t.) To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.