Night-bat

Alternative forms

• nightbat

Full definition of night-bat

Noun

1. (now only Caribbean) A (night-flying) bat.
• 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 94:there were found divers populous nations, in farre differing climates, that lived upon them; made provision of them, and carefully fed them; as also of grasse-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and night-bats
2. (now literary) A ghost, an evil spirit.
3. (Jamaica) A large nocturnal moth.