Converse of object

• hibernate: Can put grills on cave entrances to prevent interference to hibernating bats.

• wield: Shortly after 9.30pm, 5 men approached the house wielding baseball bats.

• roost: So problems only arise when building or repair work is being done which would disturb a colony of roosting bats.

Adjective modifier

• long-eared: Can also be distinguished from the brown long-eared bat by the length of the thumb.

• insectivorous: The use of sewage treatment works as foraging sites by insectivorous bats.

• free-tailed: The Guide reckoned we saw about 3.5 million Mexican Free-tailed Bats exit the Cave in one hour 7.30-8.30pm.

• whiskered: Vertebrate species in the Irish Vertebrate Red Data Book include whiskered bat, shoveler, pochard and brook lamprey.

Modifies a noun

• roost: Mature trees, which are to be removed, should be inspected to whether they form bat roosts.

• guano: She works on lake and marine sediment as well as on bat guano and honey.

• detector: An opportunity to listen to bats using our bat detector.

• rabies: Laboratory investigation of human deaths from vampire bat rabies in Peru.

• mitzvah: I've got my bat mitzvah soon, which is my rite of passage.

• droppings: No scraping of tables, flicking of bat droppings, or throwing of paper darts during any liturgy.

Noun used with modifier

• horseshoe: Methods Samples of DNA were collected under license from English Nature from greater horseshoe bats in Dorset during 2005.

• baseball: I don't even have my baseball bat yet.

• pipistrelle: A single pipistrelle bat can eat up to 3000 insects per night.

• cricket: Unlike, say, a tennis racket or cricket bat, a snooker cue is thought irreplaceable by its owner.

• vampire: Third, by this time tales had perhaps begun to drift back of the vampire bats found in the New World.

• noctule: PETIT, E. ( 1998 ) Population structure and post-glacial history of the noctule bat Nyctalus noctula ( Chiroptera, Mammalia ).