leafnose bat

Questions about leafnose bat

What does leafnose bat mean?

leafnose 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 leafnose bat?

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

leafnose 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.