fruit bat

See also: fruitbat

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 Acerodon within Pteropodidae)
• megabat

Translations

bat of the family Pteropodidae — see megabat

Further reading

• fruit bat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia