Vampire Bat Definition

noun
Any of a family (Desmodontidae) of tropical American bats that live on vertebrate blood, esp. of stock animals, and sometimes transmit rabies and a trypanosome disease of horses.
Webster's New World
Any of various other bats mistakenly believed to feed on blood.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • true vampire bat

Other Word Forms of Vampire Bat

Noun

Singular:
vampire bat
Plural:
vampire-bats

Vampire Bat Sentence Examples

  • This is partly due to such pests as the vampire bat and bush ticks (carrapatos), and partly to the unprogressiveness of the cattlemen.

  • Bats also are very numerous, especially in the eastern forest region, where the vampire bat is a serious obstacle to permanent settlement.

  • The natural agent in vampire bat saliva becomes 13,000 times more active when exposed to fibrin.

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Words Starting With

VVAVAM

Words Ending With

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