Bat dictionary

Bats and other animals threw the Silverwing series of books appear to speak English. However they use terms that are not common in every other English dictionary. This is a short dictionary of 'official' terms used in the canonical Silverwing books and 'fandom' terms used in fan fiction and other fan created things.

Official

 * Silverwing = Silver haired bat
 * Brightwing = Eastern red bat
 * Vampyrum Spectrum = Spectral bats or False vampire bats, Vampyrum spectrum is Latin name for these bats.
 * Cama Zotz = Deity and the ruler of the underworld from bat mythology. Worshiped by Vampyrum Spectrum members. It is based on Mayan god of bats worshiped around 16 000 BC.
 * Nocturna = Bat god of night.
 * Chiropter = Early try climbing (rodent?) animal and ancestors of bats.
 * Quetzals = Quetzalcoatlus, a giant pterosaur from late Cretaceous.
 * Felids = Miacis, small feline like, tree climbing creature, ancestors of felines, dogs and bears.
 * Tree-runners = Early primates, possibly Godnia.
 * Saurian = Reptiles, but the term is used to describe dinosaurs.
 * Swamp Saurians = Crocodiles, Aligators and other crocodilians.
 * Equids = Phenacodus, the earliest of the hoofed animals.
 * Soricid = Bisanalveus, small and poisonous shrew-like animal.

Fandom

 * Lesser Tyrant Saurian = Nanotyrannus, small therapod related to Tyrannosaurus.
 * Greater Tyrant Saurian = Tyrannosaurus
 * Ceratin = Ceratopsian, Triceratops or a Torosaurus
 * Hadron = Hadrosaurus
 * New Times = Age of mammals, started in Eocene some 65 million years ago.
 * Old times = Mesozoic period, started in Triassic and ended in Cretaceous some 65 million years ago
 * Times before Time = Every period before Mesozoic.