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Definition of Dermoptera
1. Noun. Flying lemurs.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Member holonyms: Cynocephalidae, Family Cynocephalidae
Definition of Dermoptera
1. n. pl. The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidæ).
Medical Definition of Dermoptera
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dermoptera
Literary usage of Dermoptera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"have been distinguished, but lack of space forbids a detailed description of them.
ORDER 2. dermoptera.—This is an order containing but a single species, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... is free is lower in the scale of development, as retaining a more primitive type.
The orders belonging to this subdivision or branch are the dermoptera, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"... dermoptera, &c.— pectoral). Contains ten families referable to two suborders;
DERMAPTERA, with one family, ..."
4. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... Vera and dermoptera. The former may be further subdivided into two sections,
in the first of which the molars have broad and squared crowns, ..."
5. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"This order may be divided into the suborders Insectivora Vera and dermoptera.
... The dermoptera, represented only by the volant genus ..."
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