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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Dermoptera

· Der·mop·te·ra · IPA
01 n. pl. The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidæ).
  1. 1.
    The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidæ).(Zool.)
  2. 2.
    A group of lemuroid mammals having a parachutelike web of skin between the fore and hind legs, of which the colugo (Galeopithecus) is the type. See Colugo.(Zool.) See: Colugo
  3. 3.
    An order of Mammalia; the Chiroptera.(Zool.) See: Chiroptera