Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Linnean genus of mammals, the fourth and last genus of the Linnean order Primates, containing 6 species, and coextensive with the modern order Chiroptera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of North America and Europe.
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- noun a genus of Vespertilionidae
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Examples
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It has its name vespertilio from the time when it flies, after twilight.
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It has its name vespertilio from the time when it flies, after twilight.
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It has its name vespertilio from the time when it flies, after twilight.
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This trophy was composed of the heads of bucks and rams, with those of the fox and the ounce, where the shrunken skin displayed the pointed _sierra_ of the teeth, while the horns of oxen and goats, set end to end around the borders, formed dark and rigid festoons: all vacancies were filled up with the forms of bats, spread-eagled and nailed fast, from the smallest variety to the large, man-attacking _vespertilio_.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various
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Amazonicum_, and to a less extent in _S. vespertilio_ and _S. cornutum_; also in some species of _Hyoscyamus_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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"I hope nothing ferocious!" exclaimed the Doctor, who still retained a lively impression of his {rencounter} with the vespertilio horribilis.
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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"Whatever else I may have had in view, I have not seen the vespertilio horribi --"
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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At present I know only two species of bats, the common _vespertilio murinus_ and the _vespertilio auribus_.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756
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Chinese P. bezoar of _Lamarck_ as from Ceylon.] [Footnote 45: P. vespertilio, _Gm.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Chinese P. bezoar of _Lamarck_ as from Ceylon.] [Footnote 13: P. vespertilio, _Gm_.] [Footnote 14: R. albivaricosa, _Reeve_.] [Footnote 15: M. anguliferus var. _Lam.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
sionnach commented on the word vespertilio
a genus of bat.
October 19, 2008