ALL meanings of vampire bat
vam·pire bat
V v - noun vampire bat any of several New World tropical bats of the genera Desmodus, Diphylla, and Diaemus, the size of a small mouse, feeding on small amounts of blood obtained from resting mammals and birds by means of a shallow cut made with specialized incisor teeth. 1
- noun vampire bat any of several large South American bats of the genera Phyllostomus and Vampyrus, erroneously believed to feed on blood. 1
- noun vampire bat false vampire. 1
- countable noun vampire bat A vampire bat is a bat from South America which feeds by sucking the blood of other animals. 0
- noun vampire bat 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 0
- noun vampire bat 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 0
- noun vampire bat any of various other bats mistakenly believed to feed on blood 0