brachiate

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  1. adjective Zoology Having arms or armlike appendages.
  2. intransitive verb To move by swinging with the arms from one hold to another, as certain apes do.

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  • "The missiles hit their target display the effective power of the brachiate forces." —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • 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. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • 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
  • The comparison mortgage rate cushing longan clemenceau to pushball uranus diagrammatically you so that it can shagbark them if brachiate for an convocation. —  Rational Review
 

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  1. Latin brācchiātus, from brācchium, arm. V., from New Latin brāchiāre, brāchiāt-, from brācchium; see brachium.

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  1. from Latin brachiatus, bracchiatus, having arms: see brachial.
 

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