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单词 horseshoe bat
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horseshoe bat in British English

noun
any of numerous large-eared Old World insectivorous bats, mostly of the genus Rhinolophus, with a fleshy growth around the nostrils, used in echolocation: family Rhinolophidae

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horseshoe bat

The greater horseshoe bat is most likely to disappear next.
The Sun (2006)
Over the years he has eaten otter, great horseshoe bat, pheasant, deer and fox.
The Sun (2006)
Until this pair relocated, the longest recorded journey by a greater horseshoe bat had been 25 miles.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It was a record year for the rare large blue butterfly and endangered horseshoe bats, which thrived on an abundance of fruit and fungi.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
This houses the chapel's former residents — a colony of horseshoe bats — and was a condition of the planning permission.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
I went to watch the shivery spectacle of rare greater horseshoe bats emerging from their roost and their speed and agility took my breath away.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
More than 1 million of this sum was spent on bespoke galleries and roosts for greater and lesser horseshoe bats, pipistrelle bats and vesper bats.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But civets were only intermediate hosts — horseshoe bats are now believed to have been the real source of the outbreak.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)

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