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Definition of Batlike
1. Adjective. Having characteristics similar to those of a bat, usually used with reference to the flying mammal. ¹
2. Adjective. Similar to that of a bat ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Batlike
1. resembling a bat (a flying mammal) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batlike
Literary usage of Batlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton by Thomas Morton (1883)
"... and tione(L The “batlike winges” are of three yards long, ... neither batlike.
nor even wings at on the tip of their tail two inches in all. but merely ..."
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"... women whom he had seen standing in the doorways at Clane as the college cars
drove by, as a type of her race and of his own, a batlike soul waking to ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1865)
"... which the winde gets, and fo wafts her batlike body from place to place; it
is a creature more for fight and wonderment, ..."
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