Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood and that often carry diseases such as rabies.
- n. Any of various other bats, as those of the family Megadermatidae, erroneously believed to feed on blood.
Wiktionary
- n. A small flying mammal (bat) of South America which uses its teeth to nick larger animals while they are asleep, allowing it to surreptitiously lap a blood meal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) a vampire, 3.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood
Examples
“The little black and white cat resembled nothing so much as a feeding vampire bat as it sucked and sucked of the monster's life-stuff.”
“Muffled, fog-shrouded, the gully was creepy during the day; at night it was enough to give a vampire bat the heebie-jeebies.”
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Vampires
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