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- noun Plural form of
chiropteran .
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Examples
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These chiropterans won the ultimate game of survivor as they cheated the deadly game of species roulette longer than any other life-form.
Going Mutant Dr. Barry Leed 2010
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Other species recorded from the Kurile Islands include: six insectivores, six chiropterans, nine carnivores, nine rodents, and one lagomorph.
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Chevaliers are enhanced chiropterans capable of thought and rationale.
Saya Otonashi of Blood+ & Hiro Nakamura of Heroes, Who would win? 2007
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Seventy-two species of mammals occur in this ecoregion including four marsupials, seventeen chiropterans, five xenarthrans, seventeen carnivores, two artiodactyls, and twenty rodents.
Uruguayan savanna 2007
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