HOGNOSE BAT

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Meaning:

Small-eared Mexican bat with a long slender nose

Synonyms:

Choeronycteris mexicana; hognose bat

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("hognose 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)

Holonyms ("hognose bat" is a member of...):

Choeronycteris; genus Choeronycteris (a genus of Phyllostomatidae)

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