Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cheiroptera"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cheiroptera \Chei*rop"te*ra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? hand + ?
wing.] (Zo["o]l.)
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}.
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