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night-bats

night-bats is the plural of night-bat.

Meaning of night-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.

Questions about night-bats

What is night-bats the plural of?
Night-bats is the plural of night-bat.

Words near night-bats in the dictionary

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

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