microbat

Other forms of microbat

plural

microbats·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about microbat

What does microbat mean?

microbat means "typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distribution".

How many syllables are in microbat?

microbat has 3 syllables: mi-cro-bat. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for microbat?

Close synonyms include carnivorous 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 microbat a common word?

microbat 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.