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- technical or poetic/literary stretch or spread apart; diverge widely〈技, 诗/文〉伸展; 铺开; 叉开：
her crow's feet are divaricating like deltas.
她的乌鸦般的脚叉开成三角形。
- Botany (of a branch) coming off the stem almost at a right angle【植】（树枝）叉开的; 分叉的。
派生词
divarication
noun词源
early 17th cent.: from Latin divaricat- 'stretched apart'， from the verb divaricare, from di- (expressing intensive force)+varicare 'stretch the legs apart' （from varicus 'straddling'）.