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noctules

noctules is the plural of noctule.

Meaning of noctule

Noun

noctule (plural noctules)

  1. A bat, of the genus Nyctalus, that lives in tree hollows.
    • We were all still growing used to the night-time, the blue-veined hours of morning that lay only lightly, the white spiders and noctule bats.2019, Julia Armfield, “The Great Awake”, in Salt Slow, Picador, page 25

Phrases with noctules

Questions about noctules

What is noctules the plural of?
Noctules is the plural of noctule.

Words near noctules in the dictionary

  1. noctuids
  2. noctuiform
  3. noctuine
  4. noctuines
  5. noctule
  6. noctules
  7. noctuoid
  8. noctuoids
  9. nocturesis
  10. nocturia
  11. nocturic

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