VESPERTILIONID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vespertilionid mean? 

• VESPERTILIONID (noun)
  The noun VESPERTILIONID has 1 sense:

1. a variety of carnivorous bat

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VESPERTILIONID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A variety of carnivorous bat

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

vespertilian bat; vespertilionid

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)