brachiate

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: bra=chi=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

brachiate, a. [L. brachiatus (bracch-) with boughs or branches like arms, from brackium (bracch-) arm.].

 Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

brachiate, v. & adj.
--v.intr. (of certain apes and monkeys) move by using the arms to swing from branch to branch.
--adj. Biol.
1 having arms.
2 having paired branches on alternate sides.

Derivative

brachiation n. brachiator n.

Etymology

L bra(c)chium arm