Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a nose-leaf, as a bat; specifically, of or pertaining to the Phyllorhininæ.
  • noun A bat of the subfamily Phyllorhininæ.

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

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.

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