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‖n. [ Sp. ] The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. & Sp. patache, P. patacho. ] (Naut.) A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure. [ Spain & Portugal ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. ] See Pataca. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Patagia [ L., an edge or border. ] 1. (Anat.) In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of a pair of small vesicular organs situated at the bases of the anterior wings of lepidopterous insects. See Illust. of Butterfly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Patagonia. -- n. A native of Patagonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the native name. ] (Naut.) A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon. [ Written also pattemar. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. patavinitas, fr. Patavium: cf. F. patavinité ] The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Spatangoidea. -- n. One of the Spatangoidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Spatangus, and -oid. ] (Zool.) An order of irregular sea urchins, usually having a more or less heart-shaped shell with four or five petal-like ambulacra above. The mouth is edentulous and situated anteriorly, on the under side. [ 1913 Webster ]