genus Desmodus

genus Desmodus
noun
type genus of the Desmodontidae: vampire bats
Syn: ↑Desmodus
Hypernyms: ↑mammal genus
Member Holonyms: ↑Desmodontidae, ↑family Desmodontidae
Member Meronyms: ↑Desmodus rotundus

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