Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
- 2verb
swing from one hold to the next
"the monkeys brachiate"
- 3adjective
having arms or armlike appendages
- 4adjective
having widely spreading paired branches
"maples are brachiate"
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