Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A South American genus of phyllostomine bats from which the subfamily and the family each takes its name.
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Examples
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It is easy to understand how it sucks the blood of its victim, for its snout and the leafy appendage around its mouth -- from whence it derives the name "phyllostoma" -- are admirably adapted to that end.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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"phyllostoma" -- are admirably adapted to that end.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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Any part left naked will be attacked by the "phyllostoma", but they seem to have a preference for the tip of the great toe -- perhaps because they have found that part more habitually exposed.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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The large teeth -- of which it has got quite a mouthful -- seem altogether unfitted to make a hole such as is found where the "phyllostoma" has been at work.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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These creatures suffer, perhaps, without knowing from what cause, for the phyllostoma performs its cupping operation without causing the least pain -- at all events the sleeper is very rarely awakened by it.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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He knew that there was no poison in the wound inflicted by the phyllostoma -- only the loss of a little blood; and this quieted his anxieties at once.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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These creatures suffer, perhaps, without knowing from what cause, for the phyllostoma performs its cupping operation without causing the least pain -- at all events the sleeper is very rarely awakened by it.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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Every year animals are killed by the _phyllostoma hastatum_, not in hundreds, but in thousands.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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Every year animals are killed by the _phyllostoma hastatum_, not in hundreds, but in thousands.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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He knew that there was no poison in the wound inflicted by the phyllostoma -- only the loss of a little blood; and this quieted his anxieties at once.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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