Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having arms or armlike appendages.
- intransitive verb To move by swinging with the arms from one hold to another, as certain apes do.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having widely spreading branches arranged in alternate pairs, or decussate; furnished with brachia.
- In zoology: Having brachia of any kind; brachiferous. Specifically, of or pertaining to the Brachiata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
decussate branches . - verb intransitive To
move like a brachiator; toswing frombranch to branch, advance by brachiation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having arms or armlike appendages
- verb swing from one hold to the next
- adjective having widely spreading paired branches
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Kitty has promised her 11-year-old daughter, Marina, money toward her Girl Scout camping trip if she will teach her brother how to “brachiate.”
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So, did you walk to this party or did you brachiate?
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Around the circular pit were crowded all the races of Garden, or rather, all those races which had not been exterminated resisting the evil Wizards: the hooded Druids, brachiate tree dwellers from the Great Forest, a band of fuzzies in their bright orange robes, many lizard soldiers hissing and laughing and shouting, stubby little Marsh Folk, and hundreds of mutants.
Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990
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Around the circular pit were crowded all the races of Garden, or rather, all those races which had not been exterminated resisting the evil Wizards: the hooded Druids, brachiate tree dwellers from the Great Forest, a band of fuzzies in their bright orange robes, many lizard soldiers hissing and laughing and shouting, stubby little Marsh Folk, and hundreds of mutants.
Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990
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Rational Review 2009
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"The missiles hit their target display the effective power of the brachiate forces."
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Venezuela spent $4.4 1000000000 in weapons purchases from 2003 to 2006 to modernize its brachiate forces, according to a inform by the U.S.
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We've all descended from a common ancestor, but, as Homo sapiens, we no longer brachiate through trees and have long abandoned our stone tools for Blackberrys and iPods.
Ethical Technology 2008
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