"cheiropterygium" meaning in English

See cheiropterygium in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: cheiropterygia [plural]
Etymology: From New Latin cheiropterygium, from Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πτερύγιον (pterúgion, “wing, fin”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|NL.|cheiropterygium}} New Latin cheiropterygium, {{der|en|grc|χείρ|t=hand}} Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) Head templates: {{en-noun|cheiropterygia}} cheiropterygium (plural cheiropterygia)
  1. (anatomy) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates. Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-cheiropterygium-en-noun-Dd6qb3Co Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for cheiropterygium meaning in English (1.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "NL.",
        "3": "cheiropterygium"
      },
      "expansion": "New Latin cheiropterygium",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "χείρ",
        "t": "hand"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From New Latin cheiropterygium, from Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πτερύγιον (pterúgion, “wing, fin”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cheiropterygia",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cheiropterygia"
      },
      "expansion": "cheiropterygium (plural cheiropterygia)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Anatomy",
          "orig": "en:Anatomy",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates."
      ],
      "id": "en-cheiropterygium-en-noun-Dd6qb3Co",
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "pentadactyloid",
          "pentadactyloid"
        ],
        [
          "limb",
          "limb"
        ],
        [
          "vertebrate",
          "vertebrate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cheiropterygium"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "NL.",
        "3": "cheiropterygium"
      },
      "expansion": "New Latin cheiropterygium",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "χείρ",
        "t": "hand"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From New Latin cheiropterygium, from Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πτερύγιον (pterúgion, “wing, fin”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cheiropterygia",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cheiropterygia"
      },
      "expansion": "cheiropterygium (plural cheiropterygia)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms borrowed from New Latin",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms derived from New Latin",
        "en:Anatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "pentadactyloid",
          "pentadactyloid"
        ],
        [
          "limb",
          "limb"
        ],
        [
          "vertebrate",
          "vertebrate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cheiropterygium"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.