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