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bat-eared

American

[bat-eerd] / ˈbætˌɪərd /

adjective

(of a dog or other canid) having large, erect ears rounded at the top, resembling those of a bat.

Etymology

Origin of bat-eared

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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But Finger refined it; he created Batman’s iconic bat-eared cowl, his bat logo and scalloped cape.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2023

After selecting a pig, an owl and a South African bat-eared fox, he turned his attention to the clothes.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2015

And that shrouded bedroom with the bat-eared gargoyles whose eyes followed her round the room.

From Nature • Apr. 10, 2013

Exceptions: showing Christ as a young man wistfully watching the youths and maidens walking out together through the fields; making Judas an evident fiend, a bat-eared Apollyon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the variety of animals I keep in cages in the garden I have four monkeys and a bat-eared fox that will escape on the slightest pretense from the boy who cleans out the cages.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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