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BRACHIATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brachiate mean?
• BRACHIATE (adjective)
The adjective BRACHIATE has 2 senses:
1. having widely spreading paired branches
2. having arms or armlike appendages
Familiarity information: BRACHIATE used as an adjective is rare.
• BRACHIATE (verb)
The verb BRACHIATE has 1 sense:
1. swing from one hold to the next
Familiarity information: BRACHIATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having widely spreading paired branches
Context example:
maples are brachiate
Similar:
branchy (having many branches)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having arms or armlike appendages
Similar:
armed (having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination)
Domain category:
zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it brachiates Past simple: brachiated
Past participle: brachiated
-ing form: brachiating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Swing from one hold to the next
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
the monkeys brachiate
Hypernyms (to "brachiate" is one way to...):
sway; swing (move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
brachiation (swinging by the arms from branch to branch)
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