brachiate

brachiate is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
2. verb. swing from one hold to the next

   "the monkeys brachiate"

3. adjective. having arms or armlike appendages
4. adjective. having widely spreading paired branches

   "maples are brachiate"

Common word forms

brachiated, brachiates, brachiating

Words from these letters

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