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n.
Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
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In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body.
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Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
superl.
On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
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Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.
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Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.
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Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire.
n.
A fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. There are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip.
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Any one of several species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma.
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A genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of North America and Europe.
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A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.
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Any species of bat belonging to the genus Stenoderma, native of the West Indies and South America. These bats have a short or rudimentary tail and a peculiarly shaped nose membrane.
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One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
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A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.
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To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.
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Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.
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Of or pertaining to the genus Stenoderma, which includes several West Indian and South American nose-leaf bats.
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Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.
n. pl.
A tribe of bats including the common insectivorous bats of America and Europe, belonging to Vespertilio and allied genera. They lack a nose membrane.
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of Batsman
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