Definition of "divaricating" [divaricating]

• Present participle of divaricate. (verb)

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• "The inflorescence consists of usually two (rarely three) divaricating spikes on a long peduncle."
• "Almost all the divaricating work at present roughly classed together as sociological could be brought into relation in the simplest manner, either as new suggestions, as new discussion or criticism, as newly ascertained facts bearing upon such discussions and sustaining or eliminating suggestions."
• "I would like in a parenthetical section to expand and render rather more concrete this idea of the species as one divaricating flow of blood, by an appeal to its arithmetical aspect."