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night-bat en · NOUN

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1. (Caribbean) A (night-flying) bat.
   • there were found divers populous nations, in farre differing climates, that lived upon them; made provision of them, and carefully fed them; as also of grasse-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and night-bats [translating chauvessouriz]. , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94
2. (literary) A ghost, an evil spirit.
3. (Jamaica) A large nocturnal moth.

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