单词 | horseshoe-bat |
释义 | > as lemmashorseshoe-bat horseshoe-bat n. any species of bat having a nose-leaf more or less horseshoe-shaped, esp. Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum, R. hipposideros, and Phyllorhina armigera. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] > suborder Microchiroptera > miscellaneous members of horseshoe-bat1774 nycterine1840 stenoderm1871 mystacine1876 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 140 The Horse shoe Bat, with an odd protuberance round its upper lip, somewhat in the form of an horse-shoe. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §169 Two species are known in England under the name of the Greater and Lesser Horse-shoe Bats. < as lemmas |
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