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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

brachiatus

(

bracch

-) with boughs or branches like arms, from

brackium

(

bracch

-) arm.]

(Bot.)

Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

Adj.

[See Brachial.] In botany, having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next.