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单词 ghost bat
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Definition of ghost bat in English:

ghost bat

noun
  • 1Any of a number of bats with mainly white or grey fur.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • African and Asian false vampires and Australian ghost bats, the largest of the Microchiroptera, likewise devour frogs, birds, and small mammals, including other species of bats.
    • Northern ghost bats like to stay in humid habitats such as tropical and riparian rainforests.
    • He mentions a case where some catholic missionaries were kept awake by night by ghost bats who used the church entrance for eating.
    • Using echolocation, ghost bats hunt for large insects, lizards, frogs, birds and even other bats.
    • The average head and body measurement of a ghost bat is 100 mm, each forearm also measures an average of 100 mm.
    1. 1.1
      see white bat
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Adult and juvenile ghost bats forage independently, coming and going from their roosts as they please.
      • The ghost bats have translucent-looking creamy-coloured wings, so in flight they do look ghostly indeed.
      • Have students identify the two other types of bats mentioned in this segment - bentwing and ghost bats.
      • More than half - 78 species - were bats, including ghost bats, fishing bats, giant false vampire bats, mammal- and bird-feeding vampire bats, nectar-feeding bats, fruit bats, sucker-winged bats, and free-tailed bats.
      • Some of these bats such as the ghost bats, capture their meals while flying high in the open air.
    2. 1.2Australian
      another term for false vampire
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One can therefore argue safely that visual specialisations that were found to be absent from ghost bats are unlikely to turn up in Amorphochilus, Furipterus or some other rare, non-visual microbat.
      • The study looked at the social and reproductive behaviour of the ghost bats, as well as their hunting and feeding behaviour.
      • It has to be a pretty small carnivore and there have to be many of them since the floor is thickly covered with droppings, so ghost bats would have made sense.
      • If a sound comes back the ghost bat swoops down and raps its wings around its pray and bites it to kill it.
 
 
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