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Vampire Bat

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Noun

1. true vampire bat, vampire bat

any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Vampire Bat

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noun
any bat, esp Desmodus rotundus, of the family Desmodontidae of tropical regions of Central and South America, having sharp incisor and canine teeth and feeding on the blood of birds and mammals
Compare false vampire

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Vampire Bat

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1. 
any of a family (Desmodontidae) of tropical American bats that live on vertebrate blood, esp. of stock animals, and sometimes transmit rabies and a trypanosome disease of horses
2. 
any of various other bats mistakenly believed to feed on blood

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Vampire Bat

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n.
1. Any of several bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, found in subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas, that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood and that often carry diseases such as rabies.
2. Any of various other bats, as those of the family Megadermatidae, erroneously believed to feed on blood.

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