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Example sentences for "phyllostoma"

Lexicographically close words:
phylactery; phylarchs; phyletic; phyletically; phyllodia; phyllotaxis; phylloxera; phylogenesis; phylogenetic; phylogenetically
  1. Phyllostoma hastatum, next in point of size to Vampyrus spectrum, is a well-known species in South America; P.

  2. Every year animals are killed by the phyllostoma hastatum, not in hundreds, but in thousands.

  3. These creatures suffer, perhaps, without knowing from what cause, for the phyllostoma performs its cupping operation without causing the least pain--at all events the sleeper is very rarely awakened by it.

  4. The large teeth--of which it has got quite a mouthful--seem altogether unfitted to make a hole such as is found where the phyllostoma has been at work.

  5. The little grey Phyllostoma is the guilty blood-sucker which visits sleepers and bleeds them in the night.

  6. The natives, however, assured him that it was the phyllostoma which had inflicted the wound, and they asserted that it is the only kind which attacks man.

  7. The Phyllostoma was a small kind, of a dark-grey colour, streaked with white down the back, and having a leaf-shaped fleshy expansion on the tip of the nose.

  8. According to the negroes, the Phyllostoma is the only kind which attacks man.


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