bat wing

Leather flap, airborne

Bat wing refers to the wing of a bat—the membrane stretched between elongated finger bones that allows flight.

The term extends to things resembling this shape: bat-wing sleeves flare dramatically from shoulder to wrist, and bat-wing doors swing in both directions like saloon doors.

In cooking, bat wings are chicken wing sections separated at the joint.

She wore a dramatic bat-wing sweater from the eighties.

Related

forelimbAnterior vertebrate appendage
fingerHand's grasping extension
membraneThin tissue sheet
chiropteraScientific name for bats
flying foxLarge fruit-eating bat

glider · web · phalanges · span · airfoil · flight · fold · maneuverability · cartilage · nocturnal · stretch · mammal · echolocation · flap · vampire · bone · vascularization · leathery

Categories

witchcraftwitch, spell, spellwork, witches, spells
limbsarm, leg, foreleg, forelimb, hind leg
wingswingspan, wingbeat, wingtip, flight feather, pinion
forelimbsarm, forearm, foreleg, hand, paw
action sports tricks360, 720, 1080, 180, backflip
wing anatomyforewing, hindwing, venation, costa, radius

Opposites

wing structure/type

bat wingfeathered wing

Plumed flying appendage

bird wing · angel wing · feather · plumage · pinion

flight mechanism

bat wingbird wing

Avian flight limb

feathered wing · insect wing · butterfly wing · dragonfly wing

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Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G