harpy bat

English

Noun

harpy bat (plural harpy bats)

  1. An East Indian fruit bat of the genus Nyctimene (especially Nyctimene cephalotes), with prominent tubular nostrils.
  2. A small insectivorous Indian bat (Harpiocephalus harpia).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for harpy bat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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