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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A remarkable genus of South American phyllostomine bats, typical of the group Desmodontes, family Phyllostomatidæ, having no molar teeth and no calcar. D. rufus, a common and troublesome blood-sucking species, is the type.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the type genus of the Desmodontidae, consisting of vampire bats.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun type genus of the Desmodontidae: vampire bats

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