batwing

Noun

attributive often

The wing of a bat, or its shape. / Several South or Southeast Asian species of tailless dark swallowtail butterflies in the genus Atrophaneura. / An area of flabby fat under a person's arms.

Japanese Meaning

コウモリの翼、またはその形状 / 南アジアまたは東南アジアに生息する、尾のない暗色のアトロパネウラ属のスワローテイル蝶 / 腕の下のたるんだ脂肪の部分

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The old lighthouse had a metal sign shaped like a batwing, weathered by years of salt spray.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

古い灯台にはコウモリの翼の形をした金属の看板があり、長年の潮風にさらされて風化していた。

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The wing of a bat, or its shape.

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Sense（2）

Several South or Southeast Asian species of tailless dark swallowtail butterflies in the genus Atrophaneura.

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An area of flabby fat under a person's arms.

Sense（4）

A long sleeve with a deep armhole, tapering toward the wrist.

Sense（5）

One of a pair of swinging doors which typically do not lock nor cover the full vertical range of the doorway (leaving a large gap at the top and bottom), common especially in saloons.

The cantina was a flatroofed adobe, painfully white in the unrelenting sun, with a brush roof and splintery batwings. The doors swung back and forth as a man stepped before them and stood beneath the brush arbor, staring at Navarro,[…]

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Sense（6）

(often attributive) An exercise or posture on the stomach wherein a dumbbell row or lateral raise is performed.

batwings

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