mouse-eared bat

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   a carnivorous bat with ears like a mouse

   Broadercarnivorous bat

Questions about mouse-eared bat

What does mouse-eared bat mean?

mouse-eared bat means "a carnivorous bat with ears like a mouse".

Is mouse-eared bat a common word?

mouse-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.