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Definition of Cave bat

1. Noun. Drab yellowish big-eared bat that lives in caves.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cave Bat

Literary usage of Cave bat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays Upon Natural History, and Other Miscellaneous Subjects, by George Edwards (1770)
"different from any I have met with: he calls it the Cave-Bat. He fays, the Hebrew name is ... fize between this Cave- Bat and my Great Bat from ..."

2. A Natural History of Uncommon Birds: And of Some Other Rare and Undescribed by George Edwards (1751)
"... it the Cave-Bat. He fays, the Hebrew Name is ... of a Size between this Cave- Bat, and my Great Bat from ..."

3. The Mineral Resources of Texas: By William B. Phillips by William Battle Phillips (1914)
"There are probably from 1500 to 2000 tons of bat guano in this cave. Bat guano varies a good deal in its content of ammonia, but the best of it contains ..."

4. Ecosystem Matters: Activity and Resource Guide for Environmental Educators by Mary Adams (1995)
"... very careful not to disturb the bats when they enter the cave. Bat grates are also put on vacant mines. When miners no longer work or operate a mine, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The paper cites in proof of this position analyses of cave- earth, cave-bat guano, and of the water which drips from above into the Mammoth Cave. ..."

6. Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands: A edited by Deborah M. Finch (1998)
"The natural history of the cave bat, Myotis velifer. Volume 1. Number 1, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM. 1:1-74. Hermanson, JW; O'Shea, TJ. ..."

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