Definitions for patagium

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patagium pa·ta·gi·um

Spelling: [puh-tey-jee-uh m]

IPA: /pəˈteɪ dʒi əm/

Patagium is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in patagium (aagimptu).

Definitions for patagium

noun

1. a wing membrane, as of a bat.
2. the extensible fold of skin of certain insects or of a gliding mammal or reptile, as a flying squirrel.
3. either of two small processes on the anterior thorax, found especially among butterflies and moths.

Origin of patagium

1820-30; New Latin, special use of Latin patagium tunic border

Examples for patagium

patagium incomplete, with concave chamber-rows, enveloping the arms with exception of the broad blunt terminal face.

patagium complete, with six to seven concave chamber-rows, enveloping the whole arms with the exception of the terminal spines.

patagium incomplete, enveloping only the basal half of the arms, forming a regular square with concave sides.

patagium incomplete, enveloping only the basal half of the arms as a circular spongy disk of loose framework.

patagium complete, enveloping the arms completely, so that the whole body represents a regular hexagonal disk.

patagium incomplete, enveloping only the basal half of the arms, and forming a circular disk of looser framework.

patagium complete, enveloping the whole disk with the arms, and forming a larger elliptical disk of looser framework.

patagium incomplete, with convex chamber-rows, enveloping the arms with exception of the broad blunt terminal face.

patagium incomplete, enveloping only the basal half of the arms, with four to five rectilinear parallel chamber-rows.

patagium incomplete, connecting only the basal half of the arms, with three to four concave chamber-rows, on the margin concave.