patagium

---

Pronunciation

• Commonly irregular IPA: /pəˈteɪdʒi.əm/, also IPA: /pætəˈdʒaɪəm/ following the Latin

Noun

patagium (plural patagia)

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.

Related terms

• brachiopatagium
• cruropatagium
• dactylopatagium
• parapatagium
• plagiopatagium
• propatagium
• uropatagium

Translations

• Italian: patagio
• Spanish: patagio

---

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.036