horseshoe bat

Noun

Meaning

a bat of the family Rhinolophidae having a horseshoe-shaped leaf on the nose

any of numerous bats of the family Hipposideridae of northwest Africa or Philippines or Australia having a horseshoe-shaped leaf on the nose

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

bat fruit bat leaf-nosed bat microbat flying fox long-eared bat megabat pallid bat echolocating bat carnivorous bat tube-nosed bat free-tailed bat vampire bat bulldog bat big brown bat

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Hypernyms

leaf-nosed bat leafnose bat

Examples

In November patient zero was the first to be infected via maybe a pangolin the intermediary, the host was again the horseshoe bat which the Wuhan laboratory know about. Source: Internet

In 2013, scientists captured a wild horseshoe bat in a remote cave in Yunnan province, 1,700km southwest of Wuhan. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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