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Definition of Brachiating
1. Adjective. That moves by the use of limbs; especially by swinging through the trees using the arms ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of brachiate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brachiating
1. brachiate [v] - See also: brachiate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brachiating
Literary usage of Brachiating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... more perhaps in the gibbon and other brachiating primates than in any other
group of animals, and this undoubtedly was also true of the arboreal ..."
2. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"... agilis which had been the subject of my own study of the brachiating mode of
motion, states that, ' a live bird being set at liberty in her presence, ..."
3. Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru by William Curtis Farabee (1922)
"... and to his acquirement, of the capacity for quite complete extension of both
the trunk and limbs which has been incidental to his brachiating habits. ..."
4. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1903)
"The transformation of a third lumbar to a sacral segment in the orang is probably
a comparatively late acquisition following on its brachiating habits of ..."
5. The Origin and Evolution of the Human Dentition by William King Gregory (1922)
"... but to the highly specialized "brachiating" type of the chimpanzee and gorilla.
Hence it is not necessary, and is indeed directly against the evidence, ..."
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