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adj
Developing at a later time or later in a season, especially than is customary with allied species; specifically (botany), of a plant: flowering late in a season.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: serotinal, serotinous
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of the genus Eptesicus of several small bats.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
common brown bat of Europe
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: European brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vespertilian bat, vespertilionid
History
Borrowed from Latin sērōtinus (“late (in ripening, etc.); relating to the evening”): see etymology 1.
Borrowed from French sérotine, from Latin sērōtina, a feminine form of sērōtinus (“late (in ripening, etc.); relating to the evening”) (referring to the bats being active late in the evening), from sērō (“at a late hour; too late”, adverb) (from sērus (“late, too late; slow, tardy”, adjective); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh1- (“lasting; long”)) + -tinus (suffix forming adjectives from adverbs relating to time).
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
