big brown bat

1. 1.

   rather large North American brown bat; widely distributed

   SynonymsEptesicus fuscus

   Broadervespertilian bat

   Part ofEptesicus

Questions about big brown bat

What does big brown bat mean?

big brown bat means "rather large North American brown bat; widely distributed".

What is another word for big brown bat?

Close synonyms include Eptesicus fuscus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is big brown bat a common word?

big brown bat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.