Night-bat
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A (night-flying) bat. Caribbean
"there were found divers populous nations, in farre differing climates, that lived upon them; made provision of them, and carefully fed them; as also of grasse-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and night-bats [translating chauvessouriz]."
- 2 A ghost, an evil spirit. literary
- 3 A large nocturnal moth. Jamaica
Example
More examples"there were found divers populous nations, in farre differing climates, that lived upon them; made provision of them, and carefully fed them; as also of grasse-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and night-bats [translating chauvessouriz]."
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