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Definition of "microbat" []

  • Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera. (noun)

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Use "microbat" in a sentence
  • "A few other tetrapod-eating bats can be found in other microbat clades, like Vespertilionidae (more on them in next post)."
  • "Alas, a recent review found that this arrangement was not as well supported by the data as is the traditional view of microbat monophyly (Jones et al. 2002)."
  • "At approximately 11cm, they are the biggest microbat in Australia, but are still a third of the size of the fruit bats common to Sydney, and are usually found in North Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia."