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An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus, CH3.CH to distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, CH2.CH2. Its compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene.
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a.
Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc.
a.
Devastated; laid waste.
v. i.
To diverge; to be divaricate.
n.
A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
a.
Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; -- said of a calyx or stem.
n.
A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.
n.
A compound with, or derivative of, the imido group; specif., a compound of one or more acid radicals with the imido group, or with a monamine; hence, also, a derivative of ammonia, in which two atoms of hydrogen have been replaced by divalent basic or acid radicals; -- frequently used as a combining form; as, succinimide.
a.
Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.
n.
A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz.
n.
An ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion.
n.
A divergence of lines of color sculpture, or of fibers at different angles.
n.
A divalent, compound radical, CO.CH2, regarded as the essential radical of glycolic acid, and a large series of related compounds.
adv.
With divarication.
imp. & p. p.
of Divaricate
v. t.
To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.
n.
One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.
v. i.
To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Divaricate
n.
A coffee and smoking saloon.
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