Usually means: Blood-sucking bat; feeds nocturnally.
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  1. desmodont: Merriam-Webster
  2. desmodont: Wordnik
  3. desmodont: Wiktionary
  4. Desmodont, desmodont: Dictionary.com
  5. Desmodont: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. desmodont: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Desmodont: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. desmodont: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Desmodont: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (desmodont)

noun:  (zoology) Any of a group of South American blood-sucking bats of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla.
adjective:  (zoology) Of hinge teeth: having a large ligamentous resilifer (or chondrophore) which replaces the cardinal teeth.

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