Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various fruit-eating bats of the suborder Megachiroptera, inhabiting chiefly tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fruit-eating or frugivorous bat of the family Pteropodidæ, or suborder Frugivora; a fox-bat or flying-fox. See cut in next column.
Wiktionary
- n. any of several tropical fruit-eating bats of the family Pteropodidae
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) one of the Frugivora; -- called also
fruit-eating bat .
WordNet 3.0
- n. large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit
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Lists
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Up In The Air @ Wordnik
List of words, terms, and phrases pertaining to or referencing anything that lives, traverses, moves in, uses, or otherwise occupies the space above the ground we walk on. Words and phrases contain...
aeroallergen, aerial, aerial mapping, aerial root, aerobe, aerobiology, aerobioscope, aelophilous, anemotropism, anemoclastic, anafront, antitrades and 273 more...
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Just Batty
vesper bat, vampire bat, fruit bat, baseball bat, Roy Batty, Townsend's big-ea..., Kitti's Hog-nosed..., giant golden-crow..., pipistrelle bat, Birdlike Noctule, stellaluna, Allen's Big-eared... and 174 more...
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• Iroquoisy
Isn't it? (See definition on iroquoisy.)
iroquoisy, iroquois, fruit bat, coccyx, heiligenschein, homesick, schadenfreude, awooga, tralatition, pessary, Kateri Tekakwitha, Cilicia and 28 more...
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Fruit, Sex and Other Morsels
Because drippy passionfruit, and he was pricked pineapple but sometime around cherry durian blond twins started persimmon, lychee papaya and before we knew it, quince plum mango mango and O O O Ora...
sweetsop, canistel, velvet apple, sticky, viscid, ganache, damson, rambutan, papain, fruit bat, spread, cream and 6 more...
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Only on Wordie/Wordnik
Okay, mostly on Wordie. But it's more fun here anyway.
brannock device, polari, stupidhead, in toto, nounal, flustrated, stuffocate, firkin, full-assed, placeholder name, pro-text, cheesequake and 408 more...
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Conversations for the Ages
A list of words that have fascinating conversations on them. Or just, you know, really funny ones. If I missed any, I hope someone will let me know...
Also see a few other Wordizens' l...misuse, slough of despond, drinking problem, sausage fest, vergerhade, baromets, todal, googlewhack, quetzalcoatl, cheesewa, cheesois, absinthe and 187 more...
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Family Words
Keeping it close to home. These are words to do with my life and my relatives, living, dead or legendary.
shabbishing, gee willikers, gubbins, cancer, snifter, liberty, gazunder, alexandra, strawberries, donald white, pegleg, red and white snake and 38 more...
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Creatures Of My Town
Animals and birds I actually encounter physically or see up close around where I live in Australia.
whistling kite, green tree frog, gould's monitor, stick insect, fruit bat, topknot pigeon, scrub fowl, gecko, black kite, whimbrel, white-bellied cuc..., cane toad and 35 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fruit bat.
Prolagus See also androtitthophobia. Apr 2, 2008
reesetee Moo. Mar 31, 2008
Prolagus Perhaps, palooka considers nipples an oligosemantonym.
Woogoo. Mar 31, 2008
chained_bear Thank you all, true believers. Palooka, take note: your vestigial protuberances are actually NIPPLES. Mar 30, 2008
mollusque Human males have mammary glands in addition to nipples. In some circumstances men can lactate. Mar 30, 2008
Prolagus I think we should use iroquoisy more often. It's definitely wordieworthy. Mar 30, 2008
Prolagus sionnach,
It may sound iroquoisy, but some male fruit bats can actually lactate!
See here. Mar 30, 2008
sionnach Do fruit bats have nipples? Mar 30, 2008
trivet I was once a fruit bat for Halloween myself. Mar 29, 2008
bilby 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 :-) Mar 29, 2008
sionnach 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.
Mar 29, 2008
reesetee Did Stellaluna the Gerbil go trick-or-treating? *wondering how she'd have carried her treats bag* Mar 29, 2008
chained_bear 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. Mar 29, 2008
reesetee One of my all-time favorite books. Mar 29, 2008
mollusque As in Stellaluna? Mar 29, 2008
chained_bear 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. Mar 29, 2008