divaricate vs forked

divaricate

adj
  • Having wide angles between the branches. 

verb
  • To spread apart; to (cause to) diverge or branch off. 

forked

adj
  • That splits into two or more directions, or parts. 

  • Having forks (parts into which anything is furcated or divided). 

How often have the words divaricate and forked occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )