Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mammal, such as the bat, that is a member of the order Chiroptera and has forelimbs modified as wings.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the Chiroptera.
- n. A chiropter; a bat.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology Any mammal, of the order Chiroptera, that has forelimbs modified to form wings
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. same as chiropter.
- n. nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
WordNet 3.0
- n. nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
Etymologies
- From New Latin Chīroptera, order name : chiro- + -pter. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The chiropteran bared his teeth and hissed a stream of liquid at me.”
“Approaches, methods, and the future of the chiropteran monophyly controversy: a reply to J.”
“Penial morphology and the question of chiropteran monophyly.”
“What about "Batboy: The Musical", based on the infamous chiropteran creation of the Weekly World News?”
“Teeling et al. 2000, 2002, Liu et al. 2001) but note that many of these studies (Hutcheon et al. 1998, Teeling et al. 2000, 2002, Liu et al. 2001) did not support Pettigrew's idea of chiropteran diphyly.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chiropteran’.
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Echolocation
"Echolocation, also called biosonar, is the biological sonar used by several animals such as shrews, most bats, and most cetaceans. The term was coined by Donald Griffin, whose work with Robert Gal...
echolocation, biosonar, sonar, shrew, bat, microbat, megabat, dolphin, porpoise, orca, sperm whale, river dolphin and 10 more...
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Hands Down, The Best List Yet
Gotta hand it to these words.
chirotony, chiropractor, chiromancy, chirography, chirocephalus, Chinchirorin, chiropteran, microchiroptera, chirogymnast, megachiroptera, chirology, chironomy and 14 more...
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FreeRice Words
interdiction, comely, spume, dote, remit, raring, culvert, dolorous, postern, fusillade, salvo, alate and 57 more...
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