Defenition of the word brachiate

• Defenition of the word brachiate

  • To move forward by swinging from branch to branch using only the arms.
  • (zoology) having arms or armlike appendages
  • (botany) having widely spreading paired branches; "maples are brachiate"
  • swing from one hold to the next, as of some arboreal apes and monkeys
  • swing from one hold to the next; "the monkeys brachiate"
  • having arms or armlike appendages
  • having widely spreading paired branches; "maples are brachiate"
  • swing from one hold to the next
  • having widely spreading paired branches

Similar words in the brachiate

• • armed
  • branchy

Hypernyms for the word brachiate

• • sway
  • swing

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