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Definition of Megaderma
1. Noun. Type genus of the Megadermatidae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Megadermatidae, Megadermatidae
Member holonyms: Big-eared Bat, Megaderma Lyra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megaderma
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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