fruit bat

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fruit bat • n. a bat (family Pteropodidae) with a long snout and large eyes, feeding chiefly on fruit or nectar and found mainly in the Old World tropics.

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fruit bat

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fruit bat See MEGACHIROPTERA.

A Dictionary of Zoology MICHAEL ALLABY

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