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night-bat

night-bat noun: a (night-flying) bat.

Noun

night-bat (plural night-bats)

  1. (Caribbean) A (night-flying) bat.
    • there were found divers populous nations, in farre differing climates, that lived upon them; made provision of them, and carefully fed them; as also of grasse-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and night-bats [translating chauvessouriz]., Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94
  2. (literary) A ghost, an evil spirit.
  3. (Jamaica) A large nocturnal moth.

Forms of night-bat

pluralnight-bats
alternative formnightbat

Questions about night-bat

What does night-bat mean?
Night-bat means a (night-flying) bat.
What part of speech is night-bat?
Night-bat is a noun.
What is the plural of night-bat?
The plural of night-bat is night-bats.

Words near night-bat in the dictionary

  1. night writing
  2. night-and-day
  3. night-and-days
  4. night-ape
  5. night-apes
  6. night-bat
  7. night-bats
  8. night-biter
  9. night-biters
  10. night-blind
  11. night-blooming cereus

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