Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical and only genus of the family Galeopithecidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called
flying lemurs . Seecolugo .
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Nor _can I see any insuperable difficulty in further believing_ it possible that the membrane-connected fingers and forearm of the galeopithecus might be greatly lengthened by natural selection, and this, as far as the organs of flight are concerned, would convert it into a bat. -- p. 181.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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