divaricate
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The former is a tall plant with very narrow panicle and spikelets and the latter either tall or short and with a panicle bearing very slender divaricate branches.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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.
A. contortus.Racemes two, both sessile, or one sessile and the other pedicelled on a peduncle which is more or less sheathed by a proper spathe, divaricate or deflexed.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The book fell upon her knees, and dreamily she watched the perspective open and divaricate.
From Parrot & Co. by MacGrath, Harold
Colour bright brown; polypidom 2 to 3 inches high, consisting of straight pinnate fronds, pinnae or branches not opposite, nor regularly alternate, divaricate at rightangles.
