pteropodine

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Adjective

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pteropodine (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the flying foxes and similar bats of the subfamily Pteropodinae

Noun

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pteropodine (plural pteropodines)

  1. Such a bat
  2. (organic chemistry) An oxindole, obtained from certain plants of the genus Uncaria, thought to have therapeutic properties; uncarine