brachiate

brachiate has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
• v.. swing from one hold to the next; "the monkeys brachiate"
• a.. having arms or armlike appendages
• a.. having widely spreading paired branches; "maples are brachiate"