free-tailed bat

Questions about free-tailed bat

What does free-tailed bat mean?

free-tailed bat means "small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions".

What is another word for free-tailed bat?

Close synonyms include freetail, freetailed bat. 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 free-tailed bat a common word?

free-tailed 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.