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VESPERTILIONID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A variety of carnivorous bat
Synonyms:
vespertilian bat; vespertilionid
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vespertilionid" is a kind of...):
carnivorous bat; microbat (typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distribution)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vespertilionid"):
frosted bat; Vespertilio murinus (common Eurasian bat with white-tipped hairs in its coat)
Lasiurus borealis; red bat (North American bat of a brick or rusty red color with hairs tipped with white)
little brown bat; little brown myotis; Myotis leucifugus (the small common North American bat; widely distributed)
cave myotis; Myotis velifer (small bat of southwest United States that lives in caves etc.)
big brown bat; Eptesicus fuscus (rather large North American brown bat; widely distributed)
Eptesicus serotinus; European brown bat; serotine (common brown bat of Europe)
Antrozous pallidus; cave bat; pallid bat (drab yellowish big-eared bat that lives in caves)
pipistrel; pipistrelle; Pipistrellus pipistrellus (small European brown bat)
eastern pipistrel; Pipistrellus subflavus (one of the smallest bats of eastern North America)
SPipistrellus hesperus; western pipistrel (of western North America)
Euderma maculata; jackass bat; spotted bat (a large bat of the southwestern United States having spots and enormous ears)
long-eared bat (any of various Old or New World bats having very long ears)
Holonyms ("vespertilionid" is a member of...):
family Vespertilionidae; Vespertilionidae (the majority of common bats of temperate regions of the world)
