English Explanatory Dictionary

vampire bat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their sole source of food.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

vampire bat vampire bats

Synonyms

vampire

Derived words

false vampire bat Linnaeus's false vampire bat spectral vampire bat white-winged vampire bat
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