mastiff bat

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   a soft-furred chocolate-brown bat with folded ears and small wings; often runs along the ground

   Broadercarnivorous bat

   Part ofEumops

Questions about mastiff bat

What does mastiff bat mean?

mastiff bat means "a soft-furred chocolate-brown bat with folded ears and small wings; often runs along the ground".

Is mastiff bat a common word?

mastiff 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.