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(now only Caribbean) A (night-flying) bat. / (now literary) A ghost, an evil spirit. / (Jamaica) A large nocturnal moth.

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night-bat

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night-bat

Noun

Caribbean literary Jamaica

Japanese Meaning

（現地のカリブ海地域において）夜行性のコウモリ / （現代文学において）幽霊、悪霊 / （ジャマイカにおいて）大型の夜行性蛾

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On humid evenings in the island's mangroves, a single night-bat darted between the palms to catch mosquitoes.

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蒸し暑い夕方、島のマングローブでは一匹のカリブ海産の夜行性コウモリがヤシの間を素早く飛び回り、蚊を捕えていた。

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(now only Caribbean) A (night-flying) bat.

, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:

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].

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(now literary) A ghost, an evil spirit.

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(Jamaica) A large nocturnal moth.

night-bats

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