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vampire bat

vampire bat noun: any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their sole source of food.

vampire bat: any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America,...
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Noun

vampire bat (plural vampire bats)

  1. Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their sole source of food.
    • I noticed a peculiarity which distinguished these bats from any others with which I had come in contact (and on the Rio Negro my experiences in this respect had been ghastly and terrible: men wither and die there from nightly visitations of vampire bats).1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xix. 172
    Synonyms:
    vampire

vampire bat meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Punjabi and Malay

vampire bat in Tamil

இதுவும் ஒரு சிற்றினம் ஆகும்

vampire bat in Urdu

خون چوس چمگادڑ

vampire bat in Punjabi

vampire bat
ਚਾਮਚੜਿੱਕ cāmcaṛikka

vampire bat in Malay

bat of the subfamily Desmodontinae
kelawar langsuir
More languagesFewer languages
vampire bat in Indonesian
kelelawar vampir
vampire bat in Vietnamese
dơi quỷ

Synonyms of vampire bat

Forms of vampire bat

pluralvampire bats

Words formed from vampire bat

  • false vampire bat
  • Linnaeus's false vampire bat
  • spectral vampire bat
  • white-winged vampire bat

Questions about vampire bat

What does vampire bat mean?
Vampire bat means any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their sole source of food.
What is vampire bat in Tamil?
Vampire bat in Tamil is இதுவும் ஒரு சிற்றினம் ஆகும். See Vampire bat meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vampire bat?
Vampire bat is a noun.
What is the plural of vampire bat?
The plural of vampire bat is vampire bats.

Words near vampire bat in the dictionary

  1. vampiness
  2. vamping
  3. vamping up
  4. vampings
  5. vampire
  6. vampire bat
  7. vampire bats
  8. vampire bug
  9. vampire bugs
  10. vampire cough
  11. vampire coughs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vampire bat (page history and authors); vampire bat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vampire bat (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਚਾਮਚੜਿੱਕ (Punjabi) (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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