flying fox

English

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Noun

flying fox (plural flying foxes)

1. 

   

   A pair of flying foxes.
   A large Australasian bat, of the genus Pteropus, having a fox-like face.
2. A device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley, and running along a length of cable, used for transporting across ravines etc.

Synonyms

• (large bat): megabat
• (device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley): zip-line

Derived terms

• giant golden-crowned flying fox

Translations

Australasian bat

Chinese: Mandarin: 狐蝠 (cmn) (húfú) Czech: kaloň (cs) m. Darkinjung: wannagan Dutch: vleerhond (nl) Finnish: lentävä koira (fi), lenkko (fi) German: Flughund (de) m., Flughündin (de) f., (offspring, young) Flughundjunges (de) n., Kalong (de) m.

Greek: ιπτάμενη αλεπού (el) (iptámenē alepoú) f. Irish: ialtóg na meas (ga) f. Russian: летучая лисица (ru) (letúčaja lisíca) f. Volapük: (male or female) pterop (vo), (male) hipterop (vo), (female) jipterop (vo), (male or female offspring, young) pteropül (vo), (male offspring, young) hipteropül  (vo), (female offspring, young) jipteropül (vo)

device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

Finnish: köysirata (fi) Polish: tyrolka f.

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Danish: flyvende hund (da) French: renard volant (fr) m., roussette (fr) f. Hungarian: repülőkutya (hu) Indonesian: kalong (id) Italian: volpe volante (it) Japanese: オオコウモリ (ja) (oo-kōmori) Kriol: blanbo, dinga, flain foks

Latvian: lidojošā lapsa (lv) Lithuanian: skraidančioji lapė (lt) Malay: keluang (ms) Portuguese: raposa voadora (pt) Spanish: zorro volador (es) Swedish: flyghund (sv) Vietnamese: dơi quạ (vi)