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noun
The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals.
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noun
A similar membrane between the body and wing of a bird.
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noun
One of the scales affixed to the pronotum of lepidopterous insects; the tegula.
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History
Borrowed from Latin patagīum (“gilded edging of a woman's tunic”), from an unattested Ancient Greek παταγεῖον (patageîon), perhaps from πάταγος (pátagos, “clatter”).
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