Resembling or characteristic of a bat, especially in having wing-like structures or moving with bat-like qualities.
Compound of 'bat' + Old English '-lic' (like, having the nature of). A descriptive adjective that has been used since at least the 1800s.
Scientists use 'batlike' to describe everything from pterosaur wings to spacecraft designs—turns out bats perfected aerodynamics millions of years before humans invented planes!
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