单词 | pteropine |
释义 | pteropineadj. Zoology. Now rare. Of or relating to the genus Pteropus of Old World fruit bats (family Pteropodidae), which comprises the flying foxes. Cf. pteropodine adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [adjective] > of miscellaneous types leaf-nosed1827 pteropine1836 mystacinous1839 noctilionine1843 1836 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 3 iii. 149 Mr. Bennett called the attention of the Meeting to a Pteropine Bat..recently..obtained from the neighbourhood of the river Gambia. 1887 Athenæum 26 Mar. 421/1 A new genus of pteropine bats. 1994 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 81 549/1 Visitation by pteropine bats has also been observed in Northern Queensland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1836 |
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