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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: brachiate adj 1: (botany) having widely spreading paired branches; "maples are brachiate" 2: (zoology) having arms or armlike appendages v : swing from one hold to the next as of some arboreal apes and monkeys
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