vampire bat

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Noun

vampire bat (plural vampire bats)

1. Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to South America, which use their teeth to nick larger animals while they are asleep, allowing it to surreptitiously lap a blood meal.

Synonyms

• vampire

Translations

• French: chauve-souris vampire
• German: Vampirfledermaus
• Portuguese: morcego-vampiro
• Russian: вампи́р

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