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Batlike vs Baglike - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between batlike and baglike

is that batlike is having characteristics similar to those of a bat, usually used with reference to the flying mammal while baglike is resembling a bag or some aspect of one.

batlike

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having characteristics similar to those of a bat, usually used with reference to the flying mammal.
  • * 1838: William Gifford, et al., The Quarterly Review , p. 113:
    • ... ''they cling, like creepers or women, to the nearest support, to fly from that corroding ennui and listlessness, those tumults of the mind, which flit batlike amid the golden-groined ceilings, and cannot be dispelled by the lictor guard.
  • * 1916 ,
    • He had told himself bitterly as he walked through the streets that she was a figure of the womanhood of her country, a batlike soul waking to the consciousness of itself in darkness and secrecy and loneliness.
  • * 1953 , L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between
    • There was a trap somewhere, I felt sure; and though I didn't know the term "hush-money," its meaning flittered, bat-like , about my mind.
  • * 1981 , James B. Twitchell, The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature , p. 29
    • The most famous of these Los Caprichos is “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” (plate 43), which has a sky full of batlike creatures.
  • Similar to that of a bat
  • * 1912 , Charles B. Hayward, Dirigible Balloons , p. 1:
    • His sketches show the details of batlike wings which were to spread out on the downward stroke and fold up with the upward stroke.
  • * 2006 , Les Beletsky, Birds of the World , p. 180:
    • The Oilbird is one of the few bird species to use batlike echolocation to help navigate the night and cave darkness.

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    baglike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a bag or some aspect of one.
  • * 1935 , Alfred Carl Hottes, My Better Homes and Gardens's Helper
    • If small baglike objects are hanging on your evergreens or trees, each bag covered with bits of leaves or stems, you have bagworms.