a. [ad. L. brāchiāt-us armed, f. brāchi-um an arm: see -ATE2.] lit. Having arms; in Bot. having branches in pairs running out nearly at right angles with the stem and crossing each other alternately.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 169. When the branches diverge nearly at right angles from the stem, they are said to be brachiaie.
1880. Gray, Bot. Text-bk., 399.
