genus pipistrellus

English Thesaurus

1. nearly cosmopolitan genus of very small bats (noun.animal)

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

member holonym	:	pipistrel, pipistrelle, pipistrellus pipistrellus,
definition	:	small European brown bat (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	eastern pipistrel, pipistrellus subflavus,
definition	:	one of the smallest bats of eastern North America (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	spipistrellus hesperus, western pipistrel,
definition	:	of western North America (noun.animal)

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