Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vampire bat

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables: vam-pire -bat
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their sole source of food.

Example Sentences

"I noticed a peculiarity which distinguished these bats from any others with which I had come in contact (and on the Rio Negro my experiences in this respect had been ghastly and terrible: men wither and die there from nightly visitations of vampire bats)."

Inflected Forms

vampire bats (plural)

Phrases

false vampire bat Linnaeus's false vampire bat spectral vampire bat white-winged vampire bat

Synonyms

vampire true vampire bat

Questions

What does vampire bat mean?: Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their sole source of food.

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