Word Meanings - CHEIROPTEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.

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• 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.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• BELONGING
  1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
• SUBFAMILY
  One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
• SUPERFAMILY
  A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.
• SUBELONGATE
  Not fully elongated; somewhat elongated.