divaricator

English

Noun

divaricator (plural divaricators)

1. (zoology) One of the muscles that open the shell of a brachiopod; a cardinal muscle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “divaricator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

dīvāricātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dīvāricō