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1 = pipistrel - small european bat also known as a flittermouse.

IIUC Flittermouse or fleddermouse, litterally means 'flying mouse'
and is the generic German word for 'bat'.

If anybody cares, it's "Fliedermaus", from the words for 'flying' and
'mouse' -- standard Germanic 'cram the component words together into
a single word' construction.

And, yeah, it is the word for 'bat' (of the animal variety only -- not
used for the baseball or cricket implement