Definition of Chieroptera

Definition of Chieroptera

||Chei*rop"te*ra (k>isl/*r&obreve;p"t&etilde;r), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + ptero`n wing.] (Zoöl.) 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.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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