brachiate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb swing from one hold to the next
    • the monkeys brachiate
  2. adjective satellite having widely spreading paired branches
    • maples are brachiate
  3. adjective satellite having arms or armlike appendages

WordNet

Brach"i*ate adjective
Etymology
L. brachiatus (bracch-) with boughs or branches like arms, from brackium (bracch-) arm.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

Webster 1913