brachiation

«brachiation» in Mova's school dictionary: A way of moving through trees by swinging from branch to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (brachiation, uncountable); verb brachiate (brachiate, brachiates, brachiated, brachiating)

meaning for a pupil

A way of moving through trees by swinging from branch to branch using the arms, as gibbons and some monkeys do. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about animals and movement it describes how gibbons, orangutans and spider monkeys travel. Children on monkey bars are doing a kind of brachiation. Phrases: "move by brachiation".

examples

• Gibbons move through the forest by brachiation. tree →
• Brachiation lets apes swing fast from tree to tree. tree →
• On the monkey bars we copied brachiation. tree →
• A gibbon's long arms are perfect for brachiation. tree →
• Spider monkeys also use their tails during brachiation. tree →

note

Uncountable science word. Pronounced "bray-kee-AY-shun". It comes from a Latin word for "arm", like "brachial".

In the corpora

• Swinging arm over arm is called brachiation; gibbons are the fastest apes in the trees, reported at around 50 kilometres per hour.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «brachiation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.