Definition of Bracheate

Definition of Bracheate

Brach"i*ate (&?;), a. [L. brachiatus (bracch-) with boughs or branches like arms, from brackium (bracch-) arm.] (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's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

to move by swinging from branch to branch with the arms; advance by brachiation

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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