adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining or belonging to the arm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
brachial
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Pronunciation
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/ˈbɹeɪkɪəl/
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/ˈbɹækɪəl/
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rhymes with -eɪkiəl
adj
Meaning 2
Of the nature of an arm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Meaning 3
Denoting the upper valve of a brachiopod's shell
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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adjective
Meaning 4
of or relating to an arm
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- brachial artery
Meaning relationships
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bracchialis, from bracchium (“arm”). Doublet of brachialis.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: عَضُدِيّ (ʕaḍudiyy) — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Bulgarian: брахиа́лен (brahiálen) — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Catalan: braquial — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Czech: pažní — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Finnish: olkavarsi- — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Finnish: brakiaalinen — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- French: brachial — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- German: brachial — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Indonesian: brakhialis — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Polish: ramienny — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Portuguese: braquial — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Portuguese: braçal — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Romanian: brahial — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Russian: плечевой (plečevoj) — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Slovak: ramenný — pertaining or belonging to the arm
- Spanish: braquial — pertaining or belonging to the arm