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BRACHIATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having arms or armlike appendages
Classified under:
Similar:
armed (having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination)
Domain category:
zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having widely spreading paired branches
Example:
maples are brachiate
Classified under:
Similar:
branchy (having many branches)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they brachiate ... he / she / it brachiates
Past simple: brachiated
Past participle: brachiated
-ing form: brachiating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Swing from one hold to the next
Example:
the monkeys brachiate
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
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)
