javelin-batn. a South American vampire, Phyllostoma hastatum.
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1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool.ii.iv. i. 212 It has been asserted that..the Vampire and the Javelin Bat..could destroy a man by sucking his blood.