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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A remarkable genus of South American phyllostomine bats, typical of the group Desmodontes, family Phyllostomatidæ, having no molar teeth and no calcar. D. rufus, a common and troublesome blood-sucking species, is the type.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the type genus of the
Desmodontidae , consisting of vampire bats.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Desmodontidae: vampire bats
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