brachiate

An obsolete adjective meaning having arms or branches; also used in biology to describe organisms that move by swinging from branch to branch (brachiation).

• 🇩🇪Veraltetes Adjektiv mit der Bedeutung 'Arme oder Zweige habend'; in der Biologie beschreibt es Organismen, die sich durch Schwinghangeln von Ast zu Ast fortbewegen (Brachiation).

1. Having widely spreading paired branches C2 formal

   Describes a plant or tree that has branches arranged in pairs that spread out widely.

   • The brachiate oak dominated the forest clearing.
   • Botanists studied the brachiate structure of the ancient tree.
   • The garden featured a brachiate shrub with symmetrical limbs.

   🇩🇪Weit ausladend

2. Having arms or armlike appendages C2 formal

   Describes an organism that possesses arms or structures resembling arms.

   • The brachiate starfish extended its limbs across the rock.
   • Certain brachiate fossils show evidence of long, armlike extensions.
   • The creature was described as brachiate due to its multiple grasping appendages.

   🇩🇪Arme oder armähnliche Anhänge besitzend

   Synonyme: armed

• more brachiate comparative form
• most brachiate superlative form

A verb used to describe the act of moving by swinging from one handhold to another, as certain primates do.

• 🇩🇪Sich durch abwechselndes Greifen von einer Stütze zur nächsten fortbewegen, wie es manche Primaten beim Hangeln von Ast zu Ast tun.

1. Swing from one hold to the next C2 formal

   To move by swinging from one armhold to another, as certain primates do.

   • Gibbons brachiate through the forest canopy with remarkable speed.
   • The monkey brachiated from branch to branch effortlessly.
   • Some primates are specially adapted to brachiate for long distances.

   🇩🇪Sich schwingend von Halt zu Halt fortbewegen

• brachiated past participle
• brachiated past simple
• brachiating present participle
• brachiates third person singular