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chauve-souris

chauve-souris noun: an ornately bladed corseque (three-bladed polearm), with the lateral blades often shaped like bat-wings.

Noun

chauve-souris (plural chauve-sourises)

  1. an ornately bladed corseque (three-bladed polearm), with the lateral blades often shaped like bat-wings

chauve-souris meaning in Bengali

chauve-souris in Bengali

একটি অলঙ্কৃত ব্লেডযুক্ত কর্সেক

Forms of chauve-souris

pluralchauve-sourises

Origin of chauve-souris

From French due to the shape of the blades (see the Wikipedia article)

Questions about chauve-souris

What does chauve-souris mean?
Chauve-souris means an ornately bladed corseque (three-bladed polearm), with the lateral blades often shaped like bat-wings.
What is chauve-souris in Bengali?
Chauve-souris in Bengali is একটি অলঙ্কৃত ব্লেডযুক্ত কর্সেক. See Chauve-souris meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is chauve-souris?
Chauve-souris is a noun.
What is the plural of chauve-souris?
The plural of chauve-souris is chauve-sourises.

Words near chauve-souris in the dictionary

  1. Chautauqua system
  2. Chautauquan
  3. chautauquas
  4. chautha
  5. chauthas
  6. chauve-souris
  7. Chauvin
  8. chauvinism
  9. chauvinisms
  10. chauvinist
  11. chauvinistic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chauve-souris (page history and authors); chauve-souris (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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