'Bat tick' definitions:

Definition of 'Bat tick'

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  • Bat \Bat\, n. [Corrupt. from OE. back, backe, balke; cf. Dan. aften-bakke (aften evening), Sw. natt-backa (natt night), Icel. le[eth]r-blaka (le[eth]r leather), Icel. blaka to flutter.] (Zool.) One of the Chiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Chiroptera and Vampire. [1913 Webster]
  • Silent bats in drowsy clusters cling. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
  • Bat tick (Zool.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats. [1913 Webster]