The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pipistrel \Pi*pis"trel\, Pipistrelle \Pip`i*strelle"\, n. [F. pipistrelle, It. pipistrello.] (Zo["o]l.) A small European bat ( Vesperugo pipistrellus); -- called also flittermouse.
Wiktionary
n. (context now chiefly dialectal English) A bat; a reremouse; flindermouse.
Usage examples of "flittermouse".
Before starting for the stables, therefore, he went into a little broom-shed in one corner of the courtyard, and peered through the half-gloom toward the shelf where his pet flittermouse liked to sleep, curled underneath one of Fess's old caps.
The Flittermouse was still sound asleep, his gauzy, bat-like wings folded over his tiny, glossy, gray-blue body.
The Flittermouse crept under it at once, and Fess sat down nearby to eat his own sandwich, stretching his tired legs thankfully and hoping there were no bears or lioncels in the grove.
By this time she had noticed the Unicorn, and the Prince's crown, and had taken a closer look at the Flittermouse, and her curiosity was growing every second.
The Flittermouse, he explained, had spotted it hanging on a clothesline, had flown hurriedly to tell him, and they had made a detour back through the pursuing Nan nies and Children to retrieve it.
The Flittermouse alone seemed to take the Prince's words to heart, repeating "Some good rea son," solemnly to itself several times, then murmuring rather moodily, "
And the king saw in the lamplight a grisly face with the teeth and nostrils of a flittermouse, that leaned in through one of the cabin-ports.