pteropodine

  1. Adjective.  Of or pertaining to the flying foxes and similar bats of the subfamily ''Pteropodinae''.
  2. Noun.  Such a bat.
  3. Noun.  (organic compound) An oxindole, obtained from certain plants of the genus ''Uncaria'', thought to have therapeutic properties; uncarine.

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