ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Pteropodine

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Pteropodine is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to the flying foxes and similar bats of the subfamily Pteropodinae.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the flying foxes and similar bats of the subfamily Pteropodinae.

More Meanings

  1. Such a bat
  2. (organic chemistry) An oxindole, obtained from certain plants of the genus Uncaria, thought to have therapeutic properties; uncarine

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Related dictionary entries include pteropine, megachiropteran, polyborine, chiropterophilous, vespertilionine, wing-handed.

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