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brachiate::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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maples are brachiate.
Examples of brachiate
brachiate
There's a verb for that, brachiate, obviously used rarely in conversation.
From the omaha.com
Woolly monkeys also brachiate at times.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Their major differentiating characteristic is their long arms, which they use to brachiate through the trees.
From the en.wikipedia.org
How does a private organization run a zoo when the animals and the very grounds they tread, brachiate and fly across are public property?
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- Swing from one hold to the next; "the monkeys brachiate"
- Having widely spreading paired branches; "maples are brachiate"
- Having arms or armlike appendages
- (brachiation) swinging by the arms from branch to branch
- Brachiation (from "brachium", Latin for "arm") is a form of arboreal locomotion in which primates swing from tree limb to tree limb using only their arms.
- (BRACHIATION) Locomotion by arm swinging with full shoulder rotation; grasp/release propulsion, usually with hook?like grasp.
- (Brachiation) Arm-swinging is a type of arboreal locomotion that involves considerable for- and hindlimbs mobility and suspensory postures. It is used by lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs) to travel from tree to tree by using swinging forces.
- (brachiation) locomotion accomplished by overhead arm swinging. It is the main method of locomotion in hylobatid apes and is used occasionally by other hominoids (apes and humans) and in a group of New World Monkeys called the atelines (spider monkey Ateles) where it developed separately as an ...
- Form of arboreal locomotion in which arm swinging is emphasized
