See Nosferatu on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2018 November, Kevin Jackson, “Something to Sink Your Teeth Into”, in Literary Review:",
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"ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 26:",
"text": "While it may have been capable of flight, it almost certainly spent its time on Hateg crawling about on its wrists, with its great leathery wings folded over its body like a shroud. A gigantic kind of Nosferatu comes to mind.",
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