long-eared bat

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   any of various Old or New World bats having very long ears

   Broadervespertilian bat

   Narrowerwestern big-eared bat

   Part ofPlecotus

Questions about long-eared bat

What does long-eared bat mean?

long-eared bat means "any of various Old or New World bats having very long ears".

Is long-eared bat a common word?

long-eared 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.