"ghost bat" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Named for the extremely thin membrane of its wings, giving a ghostly appearance at night.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ghost bats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ghost bat (plural ghost bats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Terence Lindsey, Mammals of Australia, New Holland, published 2004, page 59:",
          "text": "The Ghost Bat is the only AUstralian member of a small family that is otherwise widespread in Africa and Asia.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An Australian bat, Macroderma gigas, with grey to white fur, long narrow wings, and sharp teeth."
      ],
      "id": "en-ghost_bat-en-noun-ILdR4K20",
      "links": [
        [
          "Australian",
          "Australian"
        ],
        [
          "bat",
          "bat"
        ],
        [
          "fur",
          "fur"
        ],
        [
          "wing",
          "wing"
        ],
        [
          "teeth",
          "tooth"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "58 42",
          "word": "false vampire bat"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 87",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bats",
          "orig": "en:Bats",
          "parents": [
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bat of any of the species of genus Diclidurus of the tropical Americas."
      ],
      "id": "en-ghost_bat-en-noun-uiZ2gzHr"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ghost bat"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Bats"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Named for the extremely thin membrane of its wings, giving a ghostly appearance at night.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ghost bats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ghost bat (plural ghost bats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Terence Lindsey, Mammals of Australia, New Holland, published 2004, page 59:",
          "text": "The Ghost Bat is the only AUstralian member of a small family that is otherwise widespread in Africa and Asia.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An Australian bat, Macroderma gigas, with grey to white fur, long narrow wings, and sharp teeth."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Australian",
          "Australian"
        ],
        [
          "bat",
          "bat"
        ],
        [
          "fur",
          "fur"
        ],
        [
          "wing",
          "wing"
        ],
        [
          "teeth",
          "tooth"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bat of any of the species of genus Diclidurus of the tropical Americas."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "false vampire bat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ghost bat"
}