LEAF-NOSED BAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leaf-nosed bat mean? 

• LEAF-NOSED BAT (noun)
  The noun LEAF-NOSED BAT has 1 sense:

1. bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose; especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae

  Familiarity information: LEAF-NOSED BAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAF-NOSED BAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose; especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

leaf-nosed bat; leafnose bat

Hypernyms ("leaf-nosed bat" is a kind of...):

carnivorous bat; microbat (typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distribution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leaf-nosed bat"):

macrotus; Macrotus californicus (large-eared greyish bat of southern California and northwestern Mexico)

spearnose bat (New World bat with a pointed nose leaf; found from southern United States to Paraguay)

Phyllostomus hastatus (a variety of leaf-nosed bat)

Choeronycteris mexicana; hognose bat (small-eared Mexican bat with a long slender nose)

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

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

orange bat; orange horseshoe bat; Rhinonicteris aurantius (a common bat of northwestern Australia having orange or yellow fur)

false vampire; false vampire bat (any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects)