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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In botany, having widely spreading branches arranged in alternate pairs, or decussate; furnished with brachia.
  2. In zoology: Having brachia of any kind; brachiferous. Specifically, of or pertaining to the Brachiata.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To move like a brachiator; to swing from branch to branch, advance by brachiation.
  2. adj. Having decussate branches.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having arms or armlike appendages
  2. v. swing from one hold to the next
  3. adj. having widely spreading paired branches

Etymologies

  1. From Latin brachiatus, from brachium ‘arm, branch’. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin brācchiātus, from brācchium, arm. V., from New Latin brāchiāre, brāchiāt-, from brācchium; see brachium. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘brachiate’

  1. armed
  1. branchy

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  1. sway
  1. swing

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. apiocrinus
  1. brachiata

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