macrotus vs leaf-nosed bat

macrotus and leaf-nosed bat both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
macrotus	Yes	No	No	No
leaf-nosed bat	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, leaf-nosed bat is a hypernym of macrotus; that is, leaf-nosed bat is a word with a broader meaning than macrotus:

macrotus: large-eared greyish bat of southern California and northwestern Mexico
leaf-nosed bat: bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose; especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae

Other hypernyms of macrotus include leafnose bat.

macrotus (noun)	leaf-nosed bat (noun)
large-eared greyish bat of southern California and northwestern Mexico	bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose; especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae