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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun plural (Zoöl.), archaic An earlier spelling for Chiroptera, 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 chiroptera and bat.

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