harpy bat

1. 1.

   any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes

   Synonymsharpytube-nosed battube-nosed fruit bat

   Broaderfruit bat

   Part ofNyctimene

Questions about harpy bat

What does harpy bat mean?

harpy bat means "any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes".

What is another word for harpy bat?

Close synonyms include harpy, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit 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 harpy bat a common word?

harpy bat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.