'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]

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