"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. Categories (lifeform): Bats Synonyms: flying fox (english: flying fox; ambiguous, some sources limit the term to the genera Pteropus and Acerodon within Pteropodidae), megabat

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