noctule

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈnɒktjuːl/    美 /ˈnɑkt͡ʃul/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bat, of the genus Nyctalus, that lives in tree hollows.
    — We were all still growing used to the night-time, the blue-veined hours of morning that lay only lightly, the white spiders and noctule bats.

词形变化

noctules plural

词源

Borrowed from French noctule, a latinised scientific borrowing of the Italian nottola (refers to various birds or bats), inherited from Late Latin noctula, diminutive of Classical Latin noctua (“night-owl”), ultimately from Latin nox (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Per the OED, first attested in English in 1771.
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