Crossword-Solution: CHIROPTERA
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| Bat | 57 answers |
| Bat's wing | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHIROPTERA (5)
Biog."] _fa bro_, Robert Fisher TOMES (1824-1904), authority on insectivora and chiroptera; edited Bell's "British Quadrupeds"; wrote natural history sections for his own and neighbouring county histories.
Dobson's book, which every naturalist should possess if he desires to have a thorough record of all the Indian Chiroptera.
CHIROPTERA (Greek for "hand-wings"), an order of mammals containing the bats, all of which are unique in the class in possessing the power of true flight, and have their fore-limbs specially modified for this purpose.
Thus, in direct contrast to all other mammals, in which locomotion is chiefly effected by action from behind, and the hind-limbs consequently greatly preponderate in size over the fore, in the Chiroptera the fore-limbs, being the agents in propelling the body forward during flight, immensely exceed the short and weak hinder extremities.
Although the brain is of a low type, probably no animals possess so delicate a sense of touch as Chiroptera.