true vampire bat

What does true vampire bat mean?

true vampire bat means "any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood".

What is another word for true vampire bat?

Close synonyms include vampire 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 true vampire bat a common word?

true vampire 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for true vampire bat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.