noctule

/ˈnɒktjuːl/

noctule means A bat, of the genus Nyctalus, that lives in tree hollows.

noctule is pronounced /ˈnɒktjuːl/.

Etymology

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.

noun

A bat, of the genus Nyctalus, that lives in tree hollows.e.g.“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.” — 2019, Julia Armfield, “The Great Awake”, in Salt Slow, Picador, page 25:

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