HyperDic: tube-nosed_fruit_bat

English > 1 sense of the expression tube-nosed fruit bat:
NOUNanimaltube-nosed fruit bat, harpy, harpy bat, tube-nosed batany of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
English > tube-nosed fruit bat: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningAny of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes.
Synonymsharpy, harpy bat, tube-nosed bat
Member ofNyctimene, genus NyctimeneEast Indian fruit bats
Broaderfruit bat, megabatlarge Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit

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