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Cheiropter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An animal whose anterior toes are connected by a membrane, and whose feet thus serve for wings, as the bat.

Cheiroptera [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.

Cheiropterous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.

Cheiropterygia [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Cheiropterygium

Cheiropterygium [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.