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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. Seechiroptera andbat .
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Examples
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I will take care about the Cheiroptera, and I will look at Lamarck again.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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He is quite right; but how many we should have to reject if we did so -- _Siamanga_ in Quadrumana, _Kerivoula_ in Cheiroptera, _Tupaia_ in Insectivora, _Golunda_ in Rodentia, _Rusa_ in Ruminantia, and others!
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Bats, or Cheiroptera, are particularly distinguished from all other creatures which suckle their young, by possessing the power of flight.
Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals R. Lee 1865
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A portion of the Cheiroptera feeds on insects, and another on fruits; one genus subsists chiefly on blood.
Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals R. Lee 1865
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I will take care about the Cheiroptera, and I will look at Lamarck again.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The Cheiroptera are animals with winged hands; in fact, the fingers which terminate the fore-limbs of the bat lengthen as they spread out to an extravagant extent; and are connected together by a membrane springing from the body, with which they beat the air as with a wing, and which enables them to fly with such ease that theyare often taken for birds.
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Jean Mac�� 1854
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I really believe that it was to put this saucy little creature back into its proper place that, at the time of the great revolution in favor of natural classification, the conclave of professors assembled at the Botanical Gardens in Paris inflicted this horrid name of Cheiroptera on the bat, ejecting it contemptuously from the overthrown dynasty of the _primates_.
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Jean Mac�� 1854
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It is wonderful how numerous the researches of naturalists, such as Mr Tomes, of Welford, near Stratford, have shown the order _Cheiroptera_ to be in genera and species.
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_Cheiroptera_, the order which contains the bats, 38, 39.
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He saw a Casuarina tree of large size, the branches of which were festooned with at least five hundred of these pendent Cheiroptera in various attitudes of ease, according to the habits and notions of the bat tribes, who can hang either by the hind or by the fore-feet.
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