"fruit bat" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: fruit bats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fruit bat (plural fruit bats)
  1. Any of several tropical fruit-eating bats of the family Pteropodidae; a megabat. Synonyms: flying fox (english: flying fox; ambiguous, some sources limit the term to the genera Pteropus and Acerodon within Pteropodidae), megabat Derived forms: swift fruit bat
    Sense id: en-fruit_bat-en-noun-OC92ilPF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Bats

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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