What is a slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight called?
calcar — (Zoöl.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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