genus myotis

English Thesaurus

1. largest and most widely distributed genus of bats (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	mammal genus,
definition	:	a genus of mammals (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	little brown bat, little brown myotis, myotis leucifugus,
definition	:	the small common North American bat; widely distributed (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	cave myotis, myotis velifer,
definition	:	small bat of southwest United States that lives in caves etc. (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family vespertilionidae, vespertilionidae,
definition	:	the majority of common bats of temperate regions of the world (noun.animal)