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brachiate

[ adjective brey-kee-it, -eyt, brak-ee-; verb brey-kee-eyt, brak-ee- ]

adjective

  1. Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
  2. Zoology. having arms.


verb (used without object)

brachiated, brachiating.
  1. to progress by means of brachiation.

brachiate

adjective

  1. botany having widely divergent paired branches
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intr (of some arboreal apes and monkeys) to swing by the arms from one hold to the next
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌˈپDz, noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of brachiate1

First recorded in 1825–35, brachiate is from the Latin word 峦ٳܲ with branches like arms. See brachi-, -ate 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of brachiate1

C19: from Latin ٳܲ with armlike branches
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I never did find another pair of striped jeans, but I found plenty of other stuff during my brachiating ramble through the store.

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While preparing for the role, he began a daily regime of working with the arm extensions he uses in the films and spent “a lot of time quadrupedding, climbing around, brachiating.”

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While preparing for the role, he began a daily regime of working with the arm extensions he uses in the films, and spent “a lot of time quadrupedding, climbing around, brachiating.”

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The dam marks the beginning of the final and most complex stage of the transformation of the Colorado River from a natural stream into a dispersed and brachiating resource-distribution system.

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Each tree represents endlessly brachiating possibilities, and those vast roots are sprawling quietly on either side of the California highway system.

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