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单词 monk bat
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monk bat
monk bat n. [see quot. 1877] Obsolete a mastiff bat, Promops nasutus, native to South America and the Caribbean.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] > suborder Microchiroptera > family Molossidae (mastiff bat)
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1851 P. H. Gosse Naturalist's Sojourn Jamaica 294 The habit so strongly reminded me of a herd of monks shutting themselves up in a convent, that I thought the species might well be designated as the Monk Bat.
1877 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 320 In Jamaica it [sc. the smoky mastiff bat] was observed and described by Mr. Gosse under the name of the Monk Bat, in allusion to the fact that he found the species living in large communities, but always of one sex.
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