About The Word Brachiate
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Brachiate
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What's The Definition Of Brachiate?
[adj] (zoology) having arms or armlike appendages
[adj] (botany) having widely spreading paired branches; "maples are brachiate" [v] swing from one hold to the next, as of some arboreal apes and monkeys Synonyms | Synonyms for Brachiate: armed | branchy Related Terms | Find terms related to Brachiate: Brachiate In Webster's Dictionary \Brach"i*ate\, a. [L. brachiatus (bracch-) with boughs
or branches like arms, from brackium (bracch-) arm.] (Bot.)
Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal,
and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple
and lilac.
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