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PIPISTREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pipistrel mean? 

PIPISTREL (noun)
  The noun PIPISTREL has 1 sense:

1. small European brown batplay

  Familiarity information: PIPISTREL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PIPISTREL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small European brown bat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pipistrel; pipistrelle; Pipistrellus pipistrellus

Hypernyms ("pipistrel" is a kind of...):

vespertilian bat; vespertilionid (a variety of carnivorous bat)

Holonyms ("pipistrel" is a member of...):

genus Pipistrellus; Pipistrellus (nearly cosmopolitan genus of very small bats)


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