Definition of "vespertilio" []

• A genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of North America and Europe. (noun)

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• "It has its name vespertilio from the time when it flies, after twilight."
• "This trophy was composed of the heads of bucks and rams, with those of the fox and the ounce, where the shrunken skin displayed the pointed _sierra_ of the teeth, while the horns of oxen and goats, set end to end around the borders, formed dark and rigid festoons: all vacancies were filled up with the forms of bats, spread-eagled and nailed fast, from the smallest variety to the large, man-attacking _vespertilio_."
• "Amazonicum_, and to a less extent in _S. vespertilio_ and _S. cornutum_; also in some species of _Hyoscyamus_."