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Definition of Chiropters
1. chiropter [n] - See also: chiropter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiropters
Literary usage of Chiropters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"There is not any great harshness in naturalizing these substantives as chiropters,
Insectivores, Carnivores, Plantigrades, ..."
2. Our Boys and Girls by Oliver Optic (1871)
"Little Hooky, like all the chiropters, had very strange habits. Hitching his
thumb-hooks to some convenient point, he would hang there, head down, ..."
3. Novum Organon Renovatum by William Whewell (1858)
"There is not any great harshness in naturalizing these substantives as chiropters,
Insectivores, Carnivores, Plantigrades, ..."
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