Brachiate

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  • adjective. Having arms or armlike appendages.
  • intransitive verb. To move by swinging with the arms from one hold to another, as certain apes do.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In botany, having widely spreading branches arranged in alternate pairs, or decussate; furnished with brachia.
  • In zoology: Having brachia of any kind; brachiferous. Specifically, of or pertaining to the Brachiata.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having decussate branches.
  • verb. To move like a brachiator; to swing from branch to branch, advance by brachiation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having arms or armlike appendages
  • verb. swing from one hold to the next
  • adjective. having widely spreading paired branches
  • Word Usage
    "Kitty has promised her 11-year-old daughter, Marina, money toward her Girl Scout camping trip if she will teach her brother how to “brachiate.”"
    Equivalent
    armed  branchy  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sway  swing  
    verb-form