| NOUN | animal | chiropteran, bat | nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate |
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| Meaning | nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate. | |
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| Synonym | bat | |
| Member of | Chiroptera, order Chiroptera | An old order dating to early Eocene |
| Parts | wing | A movable organ for flying (one of a pair) |
| Narrower | carnivorous bat, microbat | typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects |
| fruit bat, megabat | large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit | |
| Broader | placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal | mammals having a placenta |
| Spanish | chiroptera, chiropteran, murciélago, quiróptero, quirópteros | |
| Catalan | chiroptera, muricec, quiròpter, rata-pinyada, ratapinyada, rat-penat, ratpenat | |
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