divaricate one's fingers.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Spikelets less compressed, linear or linear-oblong; lateral nerves less prominent; not fascicled, long pedicellate and divaricate when ripe.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The book fell upon her knees, and dreamily she watched the perspective open and divaricate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parrot & Co.] Reference

While they run on together, the closest translation may be considered as the best; but when they divaricate, each must take its natural course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference

While they ran on together, the clofeft tranflation may be confidered as the beft; but when they divaricate, each xnuft take its - natural courfe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets] Reference

By a judicious blow in that spot where the ribs divaricate he could right well tie his adversary into a bow-knot, but this string of white lawn was a most damnable thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Place of Honeymoons] Reference

These, my friend, are the essentials in which you and I agree; however, in our zeal for their maintenance, we may be perplexed and divaricate, as to the structure of society most likely to secure them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters] Reference

Divaricable: able to spread apart or divaricate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

'Languages divaricate,' Works, vii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Of Johnson]

Sometimes they are, in the different species, long or short, leafy, branched, dense, arched, and divaricate, but, although at any time when their fresh foliage is upon them, and when they are so close together that the eye can take them all in at a glance, their distinctions are fairly clear, autumn is the time to see them in their most definite and beautiful form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference