BRACHIATE

brachiate

(adjective) having arms or armlike appendages

brachiate

(adjective) having widely spreading paired branches; “maples are brachiate”

brachiate

(verb) swing from one hold to the next; “the monkeys brachiate”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Adjective

brachiate (comparative more brachiate, superlative most brachiate)

Having decussate branches.

Etymology 2

Verb

brachiate (third-person singular simple present brachiates, present participle brachiating, simple past and past participle brachiated)

(intransitive) To move like a brachiator; to swing from branch to branch, advance by brachiation.

[…] brachiating from handhold to handhold like chimpanzees in a jungle.

Source: Wiktionary


Brach"i*ate, a. Etym: [L. brachiatus (bracch-) with boughs or branches like arms, from brackium (bracch-) arm.] (Bot.)

Definition: Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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