| 单词 | rat-bat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrat-bat rat-bat n. Caribbean a bat, esp. a fruit bat (so called to distinguish it from large flying insects, locally called ‘bats’: cf. quot. 1851). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] rearmouseeOE bata1300 callow-mouse1340 flinder-mouse1481 flittermouse1547 rattle-mouse1589 flickermouse1631 vespertilio1665 aliped1829 Cheiroptera1835 cheiropteran1835 rat-bat1851 rhinolophid1903 1851 P. H. Gosse Naturalist's Sojourn Jamaica 163 All Bats are called by the negroes Rat-bats, probably to distinguish them from Butterflies, to which they give the name of Bats. 1933 C. McKay Banana Bottom xi. 136 Enormous rat-bats circled around him, circling in and out of the cave, which was thick with them and their cockroachy odour. 1998 A. McKenzie in S. Brown & J. Wickham Oxf. Bk. Caribbean Short Stories (1999) 443 Rat-bats..sometimes flew into the house, seeming to dive right at you. < as lemmas |
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