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PIPISTRELLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pipistrelle mean?
• PIPISTRELLE (noun)
The noun PIPISTRELLE has 1 sense:
1. small European brown bat
Familiarity information: PIPISTRELLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small European brown bat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
pipistrel; pipistrelle; Pipistrellus pipistrellus
Hypernyms ("pipistrelle" is a kind of...):
vespertilian bat; vespertilionid (a variety of carnivorous bat)
Holonyms ("pipistrelle" is a member of...):
genus Pipistrellus; Pipistrellus (nearly cosmopolitan genus of very small bats)
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