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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various fruit-eating bats of the suborder Megachiroptera, inhabiting tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Australia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fruit-eating or frugivorous bat of the family Pteropodidæ, or suborder Frugivora; a fox-bat or flying-fox. See cut in next column.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any of several
tropical fruit-eating bats of the familyPteropodidae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit
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chained_bear commented on the word fruit bat
My spawn went out for Halloween one year trick-or-treating as a fruit bat. We have a very soft spot in our hearts for fruit bats.
March 29, 2008
mollusque commented on the word fruit bat
As in Stellaluna?
March 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word fruit bat
One of my all-time favorite books.
March 29, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word fruit bat
Well, spawn went as a fruit bat, not as Stellaluna, but we were familiar with said book. In fact at one time we had a gerbil named Stellaluna.
March 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word fruit bat
Did Stellaluna the Gerbil go trick-or-treating? *wondering how she'd have carried her treats bag*
March 29, 2008
sionnach commented on the word fruit bat
I hope that Stellaluna the gerbil steered clear of tricking with Lemmiwinks. We all know the trouble he found himself in. A dark, dank orifice where the sun never shone.
March 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word fruit bat
I used to have fruit bats in my back yard. By day, sleeping upside-down in the banana trees. By night, squabbling like cutthroats over mangoes.
One morning I arose and found my car, parked as usual in the driveway, with broken rear window. I was about to curse the local hoodlums when I saw a half-eaten green mango on the rear shelf. Culprit? Fruit bat tries to make off with booty, drops mango during hot pursuit. Sometimes I think it's worth paying for a new rear window to have a mango-thieving fruit bat story up your sleeve :-)
March 29, 2008
trivet commented on the word fruit bat
I was once a fruit bat for Halloween myself.
March 29, 2008
sionnach commented on the word fruit bat
Do fruit bats have nipples?
March 30, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word fruit bat
sionnach,
It may sound iroquoisy, but some male fruit bats can actually lactate!
See here.
March 30, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word fruit bat
I think we should use iroquoisy more often. It's definitely wordieworthy.
March 30, 2008
mollusque commented on the word fruit bat
Human males have mammary glands in addition to nipples. In some circumstances men can lactate.
March 30, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word fruit bat
Thank you all, true believers. Palooka, take note: your vestigial protuberances are actually NIPPLES.
March 31, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word fruit bat
Perhaps, palooka considers nipples an oligosemantonym.
Woogoo.
March 31, 2008
reesetee commented on the word fruit bat
Moo.
March 31, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word fruit bat
See also androtitthophobia.
April 2, 2008