molossus
noun
mo·los·sus
məˈläsəs
1
plural molossi
-äˌsī
, classical prosody
: a foot of three long syllables
2
capitalized
[New Latin, from Latin, Molossian, from Greek (kyōn) Molossos, literally, Molossian dog]
: a genus of mastiff bats that is the type of the family Molossidae
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