Brachiate

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brachiate \Brach"i*ate\, a. [L. brachiatus (bracch-) with boughs
     or branches like arms, from brackium (bracch-) arm.] (Bot.)
     Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal,
     and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple
     and lilac.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  brachiate
       adj 1: having widely spreading paired branches; "maples are
              brachiate"
       2: having arms or armlike appendages
       v : swing from one hold to the next; "the monkeys brachiate"