DIVARICATION • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Divarication

... as it always is with incessant absorption and renovation. Double monsters were formerly thought to be formed by the union of two originally distinct embryos developed upon distinct vitelli; but now it is admitted that "their production is due to the spontaneous divarication of the embryonic mass into two halves;"[845] this, however, is effected by different methods. But the belief that double monsters originate from the division of one germ, does not necessarily affect the question of subsequent fusion, or render ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin