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Brachiate

Brachiate Meaning & Definition
Brachiate Definition And Meaning

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

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See Also | sway | swing

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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