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PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pipistrellus pipistrellus mean? 

PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS (noun)
  The noun PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS has 1 sense:

1. small European brown batplay

  Familiarity information: PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small European brown bat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pipistrel; pipistrelle; Pipistrellus pipistrellus

Hypernyms ("Pipistrellus pipistrellus" is a kind of...):

vespertilian bat; vespertilionid (a variety of carnivorous bat)

Holonyms ("Pipistrellus pipistrellus" is a member of...):

genus Pipistrellus; Pipistrellus (nearly cosmopolitan genus of very small bats)


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