hairy-legged vampire bat

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   similar in size and habits to Desmodus rotundus; of tropical America including southern California and Texas

   SynonymsDiphylla ecaudata

   Broadervampire bat

   Part ofDiphylla

Questions about hairy-legged vampire bat

What does hairy-legged vampire bat mean?

hairy-legged vampire bat means "similar in size and habits to Desmodus rotundus; of tropical America including southern California and Texas".

What is another word for hairy-legged vampire bat?

Close synonyms include Diphylla ecaudata. 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 hairy-legged vampire bat a common word?

hairy-legged vampire 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.