| 单词 | free-tailed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree-tailed free-tailed adj. (of a bat) having a tail which is not enclosed within the tail membrane but extends well beyond it; spec. belonging to the mainly tropical family Molossidae, comprising fast-flying, streamlined, insectivorous bats characterized by such a tail. ΚΠ 1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 922 To the list of Kansas mammals..the survey has been able to add..the free-tailed bat, found in the northern part of the State. 1966 Science 9 Dec. 1336/2 This fact [sc. the extension of the tail in a fossil specimen] and the apparent absence of calcars are evidence that the bat was free-tailed. 1990 D. Attenborough Trials of Life ii. 45 Every year, female free-tailed bats in Mexico leave their mates and fly eight hundred miles up to the southern United States. 2013 C. Arnold Bat 54 Mexican free-tailed bats mate in the spring. < as lemmas |
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