LONG-EARED BAT

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Meaning:

Any of various Old or New World bats having very long ears

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("long-eared bat" is a kind of...):

vespertilian bat; vespertilionid (a variety of carnivorous bat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "long-eared bat"):

Plecotus townsendi; western big-eared bat (bat of western North America having extremely large ears)

Holonyms ("long-eared bat" is a member of...):

genus Plecotus; Plecotus (a genus of Vespertilionidae)