vampire bat

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Noun

vampire bat (plural vampire bats)

1. A small flying mammal (bat) of South America which uses its teeth to nick larger animals while they are asleep, allowing it to surreptitiously lap a blood meal.

Synonyms

• vampire

Translations

bat

• Czech: upír (cs) m
• Estonian: vereimeja
• French: chauve-souris vampire (fr) f
• German: Vampirfledermaus (de) m
• Greek: νυχτερίδα (el) (nychterída)

• Irish: vaimpír (ga) f
• Malay: kelawar langsuir (ms) m
• Portuguese: morcego-vampiro (pt) m
• Romanian: liliac vampir (ro) m
• Russian: вампир (ru) (vampir) m