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Meanings of chiropteran in English

Portuguese
morcegos
Catalan
rata-pinyada
Spanish
chiroptera

Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.

morcegos
Usage of chiropteran in English
1
Not that a bat is a rodent-it'sa chiropteran.
Beat the reaper: a novel
2
Marsupials and chiropterans were implicated as more significant reservoir hosts of leptospires pathogenic to humans than previously recognized.
Pubmed
Translations for chiropteran
Spanish
chiroptera
Chiropteran through the time