Definition of Family Phyllostomatidae

1. Noun. New World leaf-nosed bats.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Phyllostomatidae

family Phalaropidae
family Phallaceae
family Phasianidae
family Phasmatidae
family Phasmidae
family Phillidae
family Phocidae
family Phoenicopteridae
family Phoeniculidae
family Pholadidae
family Pholidae
family Pholididae
family Phthiriidae
family Phyllidae
family Phyllocladaceae
family Phyllostomatidae (current term)
family Phyllostomidae
family Phylloxeridae
family Physeteridae
family Physidae
family Phytolaccaceae
family Picidae
family Pieridae
family Pinaceae
family Pinnotheridae
family Piperaceae
family Pipidae
family Pipridae
family Pittidae
family Plantaginaceae

Literary usage of Family Phyllostomatidae

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

1. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1910)
"These all show the prominent nose leaf distinguishing the family Phyllostomatidae and, as the Mayas probably used the largest and most conspicuous of the ..."

2. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1892)
"... Of these, the eight first are members of the family Phyllostomatidae, and are characterised by the peculiar " Nose-leaf" processes which are absent from ..."

3. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices by Alfred Marston Tozzer, Glover Morrill Allen (1910)
"These all show the prominent nose leaf distinguishing the family Phyllostomatidae and, as the Mayas probably used the largest and most conspicuous of the ..."

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