leaf-nosed bat

Questions about leaf-nosed bat

What is another word for leaf-nosed bat?

It depends which leaf-nosed bat you mean. In the sense “bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose; especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae”, the synonyms are leafnose bat. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of leaf-nosed bat?

WordNet records no antonym for leaf-nosed bat. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for leaf-nosed bat come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of leaf-nosed bat

• Full entry for leaf-nosed batAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for leaf-nosed batWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.