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Vampire bat   /vˈæmpaɪr bæt/   Listen
Vampire bat

noun
1.
Any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood.  Synonym: true vampire bat.



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"Vampire bat" Quotes from Famous Books



... The papers printed half-page pictures of him as short-stop stopping a hot grounder. The Toadies' Magazine got out a Bat and Ball number that covered the subject historically, beginning with the vampire bat and ending with the Patriarchs' ball—illustrated with interior views of the Van Plushvelt country seat. Ministers, educators and sociologists everywhere hailed the event as the tocsin call that proclaimed the ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry

... husband merely put scarlet facings on the lapels of his evening coat, but Alma was clad in a gorgeous dress of old gold, with Oriental skirts which showed her limbs in front but had a long train behind, and made her look like a great vampire bat. ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine

... had done some small wrong against the law and lay in jail. He bound this man by the arm to the gendarme who was dying, and through the cut the blood ran into the gendarme's veins. His heart sucked the blood from the body of the Marquesan like a vampire bat of the forest, and he lay bound, feeling the blood go from him. The village knew that this was being done, and could do nothing but hate and fear, for it was the governor ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien



Words linked to "Vampire bat" :   Desmodus rotundus, Desmodontidae, microbat, Diphylla ecaudata, family Desmodontidae, carnivorous bat



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