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    FALSE VAMPIRE BAT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insectsplay

    Synonyms:

    false vampire; false vampire bat

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("false vampire bat" is a kind of...):

    leaf-nosed bat; leafnose bat (bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose; especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "false vampire bat"):

    big-eared bat; Megaderma lyra (large carnivorous Old World bat with very large ears)

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