serotine

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ser=o=tine

CIDE DICTIONARY

serotine, n. [F. sérotine, fr. L. serotinus that comes or happens late.].

 The European long-eared bat (Vesperugo serotinus).  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

serotine, n. a chestnut-coloured European bat, Eptesicus serotinus.

Etymology

F s{eacute}rotine f. L serotinus late, of the evening, f. serus late

ROGET THESAURUS

serotine

Lateness

N lateness, tardiness, delay, delation, cunctation, procrastination, deferring, deferral, postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause, reprieve, stay of execution, protraction, prolongation, Fabian policy, medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case, leeway, high time, moratorium, holdover, late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely, delayed, postponed, dilatory, delayed, in abeyance, late, lateward, backward, late in the day, at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last, ultimately, after time, behind time, after the deadline, too late, too late for, slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure, ex post facto, sine die, nonum prematur in annum, against the sunbeams serotine and lucent, ie meglio tardi che mai, deliberando saepe perit occasio.