FALSE VAMPIRE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

false vampire; false vampire bat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("false vampire" 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"):

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

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