Defenition of the word chiropteran
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Defenition of the word chiropteran
- Order of placental mammals, comprising the bats, having the front limbs modified as wings.
- nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
Synonyms for the word chiropteran
Meronymys for the word chiropteran
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- Chiroptera
- order Chiroptera
- wing
Hyponyms for the word chiropteran
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- carnivorous bat
- fruit bat
- megabat
- microbat
Hypernyms for the word chiropteran
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- eutherian
- eutherian mammal
- placental
- placental mammal
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