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BRACHIATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brachiation mean?
• BRACHIATION (noun)
The noun BRACHIATION has 1 sense:
1. swinging by the arms from branch to branch
Familiarity information: BRACHIATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Swinging by the arms from branch to branch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("brachiation" is a kind of...):
locomotion; travel (self-propelled movement)
Derivation:
brachiate (swing from one hold to the next)
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