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Definition of Serotine
1. Noun. Common brown bat of Europe.
Generic synonyms: Vespertilian Bat, Vespertilionid
Definition of Serotine
1. n. The European long-eared bat (Vesperugo serotinus).
Definition of Serotine
1. Noun. Any of several small bats of the genus ''Eptesicus'' ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) late-flowering ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Serotine
1. a European bat [n -S]
Medical Definition of Serotine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Serotine
Literary usage of Serotine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Types of Animal Life by St. George Jackson Mivart (1891)
"VI THE serotine, OR CAROLINA BAT THIS little brown bat has been selected as our
type of all bats because it is the one only animal of the kind found in both ..."
2. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"The use of this disc has evidently been lost in the serotine ... The serotine
bat produces a single young one at a birth, this event taking place about the ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"V. Nasutus (Great serotine Bat.) Red-brown colour on the back, bright yellow on the
... Great serotine, Pennant, Quad. tn 318. Icon. Buff. I. c. pI. 73. ..."
4. Eastern Persia: An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary by WILLIAM THOMAS. BLANFORD, Beresford Lovett, India. Persian Boundary Commission (1876)
"This bat is said to be allied to the serotine of Europe, but to have a longer
snout, the length from the angle of the ear to the point of the nose being ..."
5. The Science and art of obstetrics by Theophilus Parvin (1886)
"... and also, as stated by Goodsir and confirmed by subsequent observers, receive
an epithelial covering from the hypertrophied serotine membrane. ..."
6. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum by George Edward Dobson (1878)
"It differs from European specimens of the serotine, and from those from Central
America, in being smaller, the forearm apparently never exceeding l"-8 and ..."
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