"vampire bat" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: vampire bats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} vampire bat (plural vampire bats)
  1. Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their sole source of food. Wikipedia link: vampire bat Categories (topical): Blood Categories (lifeform): Bats Synonyms: vampire Hyponyms: common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, white-winged vampire bat, Diaemus youngi, hairy-legged vampire bat, Diphylla ecaudata Derived forms: false vampire bat, Linnaeus's false vampire bat (taxonomic: Vampyrum spectrum), spectral vampire bat (taxonomic: Vampyrum spectrum), white-winged vampire bat (taxonomic: Diaemus youngi) Translations (bat of the subfamily Desmodontinae): vampiru (Asturian), vampir [masculine] (Catalan), 吸血蝠 (xīxuèfú) (Chinese Mandarin), upír [masculine] (Czech), vereimeja (Estonian), vampyyri (Finnish), vampyyrilepakko (Finnish), chauve-souris vampire [feminine] (French), Vampirfledermaus [masculine] (German), νυχτερίδα (nychterída) (Greek), vampíra [feminine] (Icelandic), kelelawar vampir (Indonesian), vaimpír [feminine] (Irish), pipistrello vampiro [masculine] (Italian), 흡혈박쥐 (heuphyeolbakjwi) (Korean), kelawar langsuir [masculine] (Malay), وامپیر (vampir) (Ottoman Turkish), wampir [masculine] (Polish), morcego-vampiro [masculine] (Portuguese), liliac vampir [masculine] (Romanian), vampir [masculine] (Romanian), вампи́р (vampír) [masculine] (Russian), dơi quỷ (Vietnamese)

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