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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Der·mop·te·ra n. pl.
 1. Zool. The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidæ).
 2. Zool. 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.
 3. Zool. An order of Mammalia; the Chiroptera.
 [Written also Dermaptera, and Dermatoptera.]
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