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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DIVARICATE

From Latin dīvāricāre to stretch apart, from di-² + vāricāre to stand astride.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DIVARICATE

divaricate  [daɪˈværɪˌkeɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIVARICATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Divaricate is a verb and can also act as an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb divaricate in English.

WHAT DOES DIVARICATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

divaricate

Divaricate

Divaricate means branching, or separation, or a degree of separation. The angle between branches is wide.

Definition of divaricate in the English dictionary

The definition of divaricate in the dictionary is to diverge at a wide angle. Other definition of divaricate is branching widely; forked.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DIVARICATE

PRESENT

Present
I divaricate
you divaricate
he/she/it divaricates
we divaricate
you divaricate
they divaricate
Present continuous
I am divaricating
you are divaricating
he/she/it is divaricating
we are divaricating
you are divaricating
they are divaricating
Present perfect
I have divaricated
you have divaricated
he/she/it has divaricated
we have divaricated
you have divaricated
they have divaricated
Present perfect continuous
I have been divaricating
you have been divaricating
he/she/it has been divaricating
we have been divaricating
you have been divaricating
they have been divaricating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I divaricated
you divaricated
he/she/it divaricated
we divaricated
you divaricated
they divaricated
Past continuous
I was divaricating
you were divaricating
he/she/it was divaricating
we were divaricating
you were divaricating
they were divaricating
Past perfect
I had divaricated
you had divaricated
he/she/it had divaricated
we had divaricated
you had divaricated
they had divaricated
Past perfect continuous
I had been divaricating
you had been divaricating
he/she/it had been divaricating
we had been divaricating
you had been divaricating
they had been divaricating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will divaricate
you will divaricate
he/she/it will divaricate
we will divaricate
you will divaricate
they will divaricate
Future continuous
I will be divaricating
you will be divaricating
he/she/it will be divaricating
we will be divaricating
you will be divaricating
they will be divaricating
Future perfect
I will have divaricated
you will have divaricated
he/she/it will have divaricated
we will have divaricated
you will have divaricated
they will have divaricated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been divaricating
you will have been divaricating
he/she/it will have been divaricating
we will have been divaricating
you will have been divaricating
they will have been divaricating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would divaricate
you would divaricate
he/she/it would divaricate
we would divaricate
you would divaricate
they would divaricate
Conditional continuous
I would be divaricating
you would be divaricating
he/she/it would be divaricating
we would be divaricating
you would be divaricating
they would be divaricating
Conditional perfect
I would have divaricate
you would have divaricate
he/she/it would have divaricate
we would have divaricate
you would have divaricate
they would have divaricate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been divaricating
you would have been divaricating
he/she/it would have been divaricating
we would have been divaricating
you would have been divaricating
they would have been divaricating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you divaricate
we let´s divaricate
you divaricate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to divaricate
Past participle
divaricated
Present Participle
divaricating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIVARICATE


apricate
ˈæprɪˌkeɪt
authenticate
ɔːˈθɛntɪˌkeɪt
communicate
kəˈmjuːnɪˌkeɪt
complicate
ˈkɒmplɪˌkeɪt
dedicate
ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt
deprecate
ˈdɛprɪˌkeɪt
extricate
ˈɛkstrɪˌkeɪt
fabricate
ˈfæbrɪˌkeɪt
imprecate
ˈɪmprɪˌkeɪt
indicate
ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt
loricate
ˈlɒrɪˌkeɪt
lubricate
ˈluːbrɪˌkeɪt
metricate
ˈmɛtrɪˌkeɪt
muricate
ˈmjʊərɪˌkeɪt
prefabricate
priːˈfæbrɪˌkeɪt
prevaricate
prɪˈværɪˌkeɪt
relubricate
riːˈluːbrɪˌkeɪt
replicate
ˈrɛplɪˌkeɪt
rubricate
ˈruːbrɪˌkeɪt
suricate
ˈsjʊərɪˌkeɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIVARICATE

div
diva
divagate
divagation
divalence
divalency
divalent
Divali
divan
divan bed
divaricately
divarication
divaricator
dive
dive bomber
dive brake
dive-bomb
Divehi
divellent
divellicate

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIVARICATE

abdicate
aluminosilicate
applicate
birth certificate
certificate
clearance certificate
death certificate
delicate
domesticate
duplicate
implicate
in triplicate
insurance certificate
intoxicate
intricate
locate
predicate
silicate
silver certificate
syndicate
triplicate

Synonyms and antonyms of divaricate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «divaricate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIVARICATE

Find out the translation of divaricate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of divaricate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «divaricate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

极叉开
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

divaricate
570 millions of speakers

English

divaricate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

divaricate
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفرع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

divaricate
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

divaricate
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বতন্ত্র হয়ে যাওয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

divariqué
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Divaratif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

divaricate
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

divaricate
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

divaricate
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Divaricate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chia ra
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

divaricate
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाटून देणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çatallanmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

divaricate
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozchylenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

divaricate
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

se bifurca
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

divaricate
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aftakken
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

divaricate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

divaricate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of divaricate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIVARICATE»

The term «divaricate» is normally little used and occupies the 118.090 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIVARICATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «divaricate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «divaricate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about divaricate

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIVARICATE»

Discover the use of divaricate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to divaricate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution
This applied, for instance, to divaricate structure. Adaptive Figure 7.2. Divaricate architecture in shells (brachiopods and bivalvular molluscs). The German palaeontologist A. Seilacher showed that many morphological traits in molluscs were ...
Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arnould, 2002
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Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology
In a distinct minority of cases, the divaricate pattern becomes functional in each of the four categories (figure 4.3). Divaricate ribs may act as scoops and anchors in burrowing (Stanley 1970), but they are not properly arranged for such function ...
Elliott Sober, 1994
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Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution
Divaricate color patterns and sculpture in bivalves (Figure 5.10) may also be examples of a fabricational contribution to morphology. Both may be controlled by a similar underlying mechanism of material transport and deposition (either ...
Jeffrey S. Levinton, 2001
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The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...
_ Wings entire, divaricate, brown; EXCLAMATIONIS. Inhabits tippet pair with a yellowish line and dots under it. n ia. ' * COMMA. Wings entire, divaricate, fulvous, with a black line on the upper pair; beneath spotted with white. This is found in ...
Abraham Rees, 1819
5
Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons: Magnoliid, Hamamelid and ...
male, staminodes 6. carpels 3. drupes ovoid, endocarp bony, often verrucose or tuberculate. condyle present, endosperm ruminate, embryo reniform. cotyledons foliaceous. divaricate. 2n = 26. 32 spp.. seven in trop. Africa. two in Madagascar,  ...
Klaus Kubitzki, Jens G. Rohwer, Volker Bittrich, 1993
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Vol. III. - Caclyciflorae
fruit muricated from rather adpressed bristles; branches and rays of umbel divaricate; umbels and umbellules 3-rayed; pedicels of umbellule about equal in length to the rays of the umbel. (D. H. Native of North America, at the Red river.
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A General History of the Dichleamydeous Plants ... Arranged ...
Са1ух 5-toothed. Corolla with a short tube, a campanulate throat, and a 5-lobed sub-bilabiate limb. Stamens 4, didynamous, with a fifth sterile filament. Lobes of anthers divaricate. Capsule silique-formed; dissepiment contrary. 4 JACABA'NDA  ...
George Don, 1838
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A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants
2 L. mrru'sus (Nutt. in litt. ex D. C. l. c.) fruit muricated from rather adpressed bristles; branches and rays of umbel divaricate; umbels and umbellules S-rayed; pedicels of umbellule about equal in length to the rays of the umbel. G. H. Native of ...
George Don, 1834
9
Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, ...
... part of the stalk divaricates into two smaller, with a footstalk arising between them, which supports one flower ; the smaller branches divaricate again in the fame manner into footstalks, which are two inches long, each sustaining one flower.
John Wilkes (of Milland House, Sussex), 1812
10
A General System of Gardening and Botany: Founded Upon ...
fruit muricated from rather adpressed bristles ; branches and rays of umbel divaricate ; umbels and umbellules S-rayed ; pedicels of umbellule about equal in length to the rays of the umbel. 0. H. Native of North America, at the Red river.
George Don, Philip Miller, 1834

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIVARICATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term divaricate is used in the context of the following news items.
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Arboretum Paths: May is a great month for native orchids
... called snake-mouth orchid (Pogonia ophioglossoides), and rosebud orchid (Cleistesiopsis divaricate), and many other late spring bloomers. «Picayune Item, May 15»
2
Pancia piatta
In piedi davanti al muro, mani ai fianchi e gambe divaricate, ruotate il tronco verso destra. Eseguite 3 serie da 25 ripetizioni l'una. • Food tips. «IO donna, May 15»
3
Upper body: come tonificarsi in 9 minuti
A gambe divaricate (stessa larghezza del bacino), fletti leggermente le gambe come per fare lo squat (se senti “bruciare” bene, hai trovato la ... «La Repubblica, Oct 14»
4
Bari, morto Di Cosimo: il re dei panzerotti
In piedi, gambe divaricate, piegati in avanti e sedere in fuori, con la mozzarella che cola per terra ustionando lingua e dita. Ognuno in città ... «Il Quotidiano Italiano, Aug 14»
5
Our native flower
It has larger leaves and flowers, does not divaricate as a juvenile, and flowers in September and October in this part of the country. «Otago Daily Times, Aug 14»
6
Houshiheisan maintains stabilization of the internal environment of …
The prescription is composed of wind-dispelling (chrysanthemun flower, divaricate saposhnikovia root, Manchurian wild ginger, cassia twig, ... «Science Codex, Jul 14»
7
Cold, headache... Chinese pills may cure you
... nose, the Chinese doctors usually prescribe “root of thorowax” ,”fruit of weeping forsythia”, ”root of divaricate saposhnikovia” and other herbs. «Emirates 24/7, May 14»
8
Brera: studente si fa un «selfie» sulla statua e la spacca Foto
Le gambe divaricate, la testa rivolta verso il giaciglio e le braccia sollevate per fare da cuscino danno l'impressione di un movimento di grande ... «Corriere della Sera, Mar 14»
9
Renzi, idee per fronteggiare Merkel
... liberi professionisti, insegnanti, ingegneri che hanno visto le loro fortune economiche seguire strade troppo divaricate in questi anni di crisi”. «Il Foglio, Feb 14»
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The Audacity of Despair
To be true, to be strong, to be kind, to love, to be right. But I wasn't.” That's spot on, you know, but the conclusions drawn divaricate. Long Life, Short Life — They ... «Beliefnet, Feb 14»

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