leaf-nosed bat

Questions about leaf-nosed bat

What does leaf-nosed bat mean?

leaf-nosed bat means "bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose; especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae".

What is another word for leaf-nosed bat?

Close synonyms include leafnose 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 leaf-nosed bat a common word?

leaf-nosed 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.