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patagium.

The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals.

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Meaning & usage

noun/pəˈteɪd͡ʒi.əm//pætəˈd͡ʒaɪəm/
  1. The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals.

  2. A similar membrane between the body and wing of a bird.

  3. One of the scales affixed to the pronotum of lepidopterous insects; the tegula.

Where this word comes from

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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