fruit bat

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English

A pair of flying foxes, members of the fruit bat family.

Noun

fruit bat (plural fruit bats)

  1. Any of several tropical fruit-eating bats of the family Pteropodidae; a megabat.

Synonyms

  • flying fox (ambiguous, some sources limit the term "flying fox" to the genera Pteropus and Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. within Pteropodidae)
  • megabat

Translations

bat of the family Pteropodidae — see megabat

Further reading

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