'Brachiate' definitions:
Definition of 'brachiate'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having widely spreading paired branches; "maples are brachiate"
adjective
Having arms or armlike appendages
verb
Swing from one hold to the next; "the monkeys brachiate"
Definition of 'Brachiate'
From: GCIDE
- Brachiate \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. [1913 Webster]