order chiroptera

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   an old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder Megachiroptera (fruit bats); suborder Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats)

   SynonymsChiroptera

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofEutheria

Questions about order chiroptera

What does order chiroptera mean?

order chiroptera means "an old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder Megachiroptera (fruit bats); suborder Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats)".

What is another word for order chiroptera?

Close synonyms include Chiroptera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is order chiroptera a common word?

order chiroptera is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.