- brachiator
- noun see brachiate
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
brachiator
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Brachiator — Brachiators are a type of primates mostly from the family Hylobatidae, which includes gibbons. Brachiators use their arms to move from tree branch to tree branch, through a process called brachiation. Their arms are longer than their legs, and… … Wikipedia
brachiator — /bray kee ay teuhr, brak ee /, n. an animal that can progress by means of brachiation, as a gibbon. [BRACHIATE + OR2] * * * … Universalium
brachiator — n. animal that can advance by brachiation … English contemporary dictionary
brachiator — brach·i·a·tor … English syllables
brachiator — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌād.ə(r) noun ( s) : a brachiating animal * * * /bray kee ay teuhr, brak ee /, n. an animal that can progress by means of brachiation, as a gibbon. [BRACHIATE + OR2] … Useful english dictionary
primate — primatal, adj., n. primatial /pruy may sheuhl/, primatical /pruy mat i keuhl/, adj. /pruy mayt/ or, esp. for 1, /pruy mit/, n. 1. Eccles. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country. 2. any of various… … Universalium
brachiate — intransitive verb ( ated; ating) Date: 1928 to progress by swinging from hold to hold by the arms < a brachiating gibbon > • brachiation noun • brachiator noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
Dryopithecus — Temporal range: 12–9 Ma … Wikipedia
Climbing animals — There are a diverse range of climbing animals; animals that spend much of their time moving on steep, vertical, or overhanging surfaces and have appropriate adaptations for such scansorial locomotion. Climbing animals can be roughly divided into… … Wikipedia
brachiation — noun Movement by swinging the arms from one hold to the next. Species that normally move by brachiation (swinging from hand to hand while hanging from supports) or vertical leaping and clinging require substantially different cage designs from… … Wiktionary
