Definition of Megaderma

1. Noun. Type genus of the Megadermatidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Megaderma
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Megadermatidae, Megadermatidae
Member holonyms: Big-eared Bat, Megaderma Lyra

Lexicographical Neighbors of Megaderma

Meeh formula
Meelar
Meemaw
Meerut
Mees
Mees' lines
Mees' stripes
Meesman
Meesman dystrophy
Mefoxin
Mega Drives
Megachile
Megachiles
Megachilidae
Megachiroptera
Megaderma (current term)
Megaderma lyra
Megadermatidae
Megaera
Megalesian
Megalobatrachus
Megalobatrachus maximus
Megalonychidae
Megalopoli
Megalopolis
Megaloptera
Megalosauridae
Megan
Meganesia
Megapodiidae

Literary usage of Megaderma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"This tribe is also divided into several subgenera. Megaderma, Geoff. Ann. du Mus. XV. The membrane on the nose, or the leaf, more complicated than that of ..."

2. Natural History of the World: With Anecdotes Illustrating the Nature, Habits edited by Alfred Henry Miles (1895)
"As the Megaderma had not alighted while in the outhouse, ... Having caught the Megaderma Mr. Blyth kept both specimens until the next day, ..."

3. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatises on the Principles of by William Somerville Orr (1855)
"... it is said only to cat the body. The Lesser Horse-shoe Bat is one of the smallest British species of the order. Fig. 3(>9.—Head of Megaderma frons. ..."

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