brachiation

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When she was 13 months old, Anderson had Morgan hang from a "brachiation bar" for longer and longer intervals, to prepare her for the

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  1. The act of swinging by the arms from tree to tree, a method of locomotion employed by the gibbons. [Rare.] The hand of the chimpanzee is adapted for brachiation. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, p. 306.

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  • When she was 13 months old, Anderson had Morgan hang from a "brachiation bar" for longer and longer intervals, to prepare her for the —  Boston.com Top Stories
  • "brachiation ladder," a contraption you and I might call "monkey bars." —  Boston.com Top Stories
 

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  1. New Latin *brachiatio(n-), < *brachiare, swing by the arms, < L. brachium. arm.
 

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