EPTESICUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)