Definition of Suborder megachiroptera

1. Noun. Fruit bats.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Megachiroptera

suborder Gorgoniacea
suborder Heteroptera
suborder Heterostraci
suborder Homoptera
suborder Hyperoartia
suborder Hyperotreta
suborder Hystricomorpha
suborder Lacertilia
suborder Lari
suborder Lemuroidea
suborder Limicolae
suborder Lipotyphla
suborder Maniraptora
suborder Manteodea
suborder Marginocephalia
suborder Megachiroptera
suborder Megaloptera
suborder Menotyphla
suborder Menurae
suborder Microchiroptera
suborder Mugiloidea
suborder Myomorpha
suborder Mysticeti
suborder Myxiniformes
suborder Myxinoidei
suborder Natantia
suborder Nematocera
suborder Nothosauria
suborder Odontoceti
suborder Ophidia

Literary usage of Suborder megachiroptera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Families and Genera of Bats by Gerrit Smith Miller (1907)
"... though it may be questioned whether they are of equal structural importance with other suborders of Mammalia. Suborder MEGACHIROPTERA. 1821. ..."

2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"Some of them live on fruit, and a few suck the blood of other mammals. The fruit-eating bats (suborder MEGACHIROPTERA; ..."

3. Bulletin by Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of the Interior, United States Dept. of the Interior, United States National Museum, United States (1907)
"... though it may be questioned whether they are of equal structural importance with other suborders of Mammalia. Suborder MEGACHIROPTERA. 1821. ..."

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