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One of the Cheiroptera.

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.

Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.

The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.

One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.…

Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. R. Owen.

An order of Mammalia; the Cheiroptera. [Written also Dermaptera, and Dermatoptera.]

The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.

A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire.

that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones; -- said of bats. See Cheiroptera.

eloped from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

A division of the Cheiroptera, including the common or insect- eating bats.

small size as a typical characteristic. It includes the lower orders, as the Insectivora, Cheiroptera, Rodentia, and Edentata.