What's the difference between brachiate and branchiate?
Brachiate
Definition:
(a.) Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the forces exerted on the limb skeleton during brachiation indeed differ greatly from those of other locomotor modes, then the changes in skeletal loading accompanying a shift in locomotor behaviour could favour alterations in skeletal morphology in brachiating lineages.
(2) Brachiation (sensu stricto, i.e., hand-over-hand suspensory locomotion) was observed in low frequencies among chimpanzees, and its significance for chimpanzee anatomy is judged slight.
(3) The slender elongated form that is characteristic of the forelimb long bones of gibbons (Hylobates) has long been attributed to their functional adaptation to habitual armswinging locomotion, although potential selective advantages of this morphology for brachiation have yet to be demonstrated.
(4) In the great apes knuckle walking and brachiation seems to interfere with a full-fledged pollical-digital interplay, the latter function being considered to constitute the structural base of optimalization collecting afferent information, requiring brain development, which opens up categories as abstraction, design and freedom.
(5) Most of the other morphological traits characteristic of modern hominoids can be explained as adaptations to cautious quadrupedalism as well as to brachiation, and may have developed for different reasons in different lineages descended from an unspecialized cautious quadruped resembling Alouatta.
(6) All the genera concerned use brachiation or probably have brachiating ancestors.
(7) Siamang use four patterns of locomotion: brachiation, climbing, bipedalism and leaping.
(8) The positional behavior of spider monkeys fits closely recent views of major adaptive changes in hominoid evolution emphasizing brachiation and speed during travel.
(9) In vivo skeletal strain patterns recorded by using radiotelemetry during brachiation indicate that the forelimb bones of the gibbon are loaded in substantial tension and show reduced bending and compression in comparison with those of other mammals.
(10) The locomotor specializations displayed by the investigated species were leaping, quadrupedal walking or running on the ground, quadrupedal climbing, and brachiation.
(11) Travel is primarily by brachiation along large boughs.
Branchiate
Definition:
(a.) Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sequence (c) signalled the beginning of the true vertebrates or branchiates (after the branchial arches which all 'vertebrates' share) since the production of a neurocranium, viscerocranium, cephalic armour, teeth and cranial peripheral ganglia was only possible with the acquisition of this developmental step.