tomb bat

English

Noun

tomb bat (plural tomb bats)

1. Any of various species of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs, especially the Egyptian species Taphozous perforatus.

Translations

bat of the genus Taphozous

• Finnish: hautalepakko
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tomb bat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)