megabat (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *megabat*:
NOUN	animal	megabat, fruit bat	large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit

English > *megabat*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
Synonym	fruit bat
Member of	Megachiroptera, suborder Megachiroptera	fruit bats
Narrower	Cynopterus sphinx	A variety of fruit eating bat
	Pteropus capestratus	A variety of fruit bat
	Pteropus hypomelanus	A variety of fruit bat
	flying fox	large bat with a head that resembles the head of a fox
	harpy, harpy bat, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat	Any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
Broader	bat, chiropteran	nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
Spanish	megabat, megachiroptera
Catalan	megabat, megaquiròpter

HyperDic: megabat