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- adjective That
moves by the use oflimbs ; especially byswinging through the trees using thearms - verb Present participle of
brachiate .
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Examples
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What we simian, brachiating, favourite-spanner-dragging hardware types call ‘not man enough for the job’.
Blatancy Award Dungeekin 2009
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What we simian, brachiating, favourite-spanner-dragging hardware types call ‘not man enough for the job’.
Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Other David Attenborough classics from YouTube: hermaphroditic Leopard slugs mating while suspended by a twisted rope of their own comingled slug mucus, superb male Lyrebird audio mimicry camera shutters, car alarms, chainsaws in order to attract a female to admire his plumage, Capercaille mating display, brachiating Gibbons in the forests of Borneo, scary bat-hunting centipede, red Christmas Island crabs spawning by the millions.
The world curated by David Attenborough | Letter Never Sent 2006
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His arms and upper lip were so long that I suspected he might enjoy brachiating now and then.
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Methuselah was brachiating madly through the cage screaming as only a rhesus can scream.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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Methuselah was brachiating madly through the cage screaming as only a rhesus can scream.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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Methuselah was brachiating madly through the cage screaming as only a rhesus can scream.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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Methuselah was brachiating madly through the cage screaming as only a rhesus can scream.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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Halrloprillalar's people must be closer to their brachiating past than Earth's people.
The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980
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Halrloprillalar's people must be closer to their brachiating past than Earth's people.
The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980
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