flying fox

English

A pair of flying foxes.

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Noun

flying fox (plural flying foxes)

1. A large Australasian bat, of the genera Pteropus or Acerodon, having a fox-like face.
2. The cyprinid fish Epalzeorhynchos kalopterus.
3. A device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley, and running along a length of cable, used for transporting across ravines etc.

Synonyms

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

Hypernyms

• (large bat): fruit bat, megabat

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)
• French: renard volant (fr) m
• 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
• Japanese: オオコウモリ (ja) (ōkōmori)
• Malay: keluang (ms)
• Romanian: vulpe zburătoare (ro) 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: 纜道 (cmn), 缆道 (cmn) (lǎndào)

• Finnish: köysirata (fi)

• Polish: tyrolka (pl) f
• Russian: тарзанка (ru) (tarzánka) f

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Translations to be checked

• 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)=
• Portuguese: raposa voadora (pt)
• Spanish: zorro volador (es)
• Swedish: flyghund (sv)
• Vietnamese: dơi quạ (vi)