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Ozimops
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Translingual
Etymology
mul la-new -. Ozi- from mul en Ozzie + mul Mops. Ozzie is colloquial for Australian, referring to Australia, the centre of diversity of the group. Mops is a genus of free-tailed bat, and is used as a suffix for many other molossid (free-tailed bat) genera. Mops is mul μῦς grc mouse -ops eye; resembling from mul grc ὄψ
Proper noun
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genus family Molossidae certain bats
subgenus family Mormopterus certain bats; until Ozimops was elevated to the rank of genus in 2015
See also
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mul Bats