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Vespertilionidae

noun
1.
The majority of common bats of temperate regions of the world.  Synonym: family Vespertilionidae.



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"Vespertilionidae" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ceylon[1];—the "flying fox," as it is called by Europeans, from the similarity to that animal in its head and ears, its bright eyes, and intelligent little face. In its aspect it has nothing of the disagreeable and repulsive look so common amongst the ordinary vespertilionidae; it likewise differs from them in the want of the nose-leaf, as well as of the tail. In the absence of the latter, its flight is directed by means of a membrane attached to the inner side of each of the ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent
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