vampire bat
Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and…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.
» Vampire bats are the only mammals that are hematophagous, meaning that they subsist entirely on the blood of other animals.
Meaning
1 sensesAny 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.
Vampirfledermaus
вампи́рvampír
- any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood
Examples
1 sentencesVampire bats are the only mammals that are hematophagous, meaning that they subsist entirely on the blood of other animals.
Translations
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Forms
plural: vampire bats| Singular | vampire bat |
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Synonyms
2 synonyms- any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood:true vampire bat