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EPTESICUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of Vespertilionidae

Synonyms:

Eptesicus; genus Eptesicus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Eptesicus" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Eptesicus"):

big brown bat; Eptesicus fuscus (rather large North American brown bat; widely distributed)

Holonyms ("Eptesicus" is a member of...):

family Vespertilionidae; Vespertilionidae (the majority of common bats of temperate regions of the world)

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