| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| brachiate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bra·chi·ate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  br  k - t, -t , br k- |
| ADJECTIVE: | Zoology Having arms or armlike appendages. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: bra·chi·at·ed, bra·chi·at·ing, bra·chi·ates
(-t) To move by swinging with the arms from one hold to another, as certain apes do. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin brcchitus, from brcchium, arm. V., from New Latin brchire, brchit-, from brcchium. See brachium. | | OTHER FORMS: | brachi·ation —NOUN
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