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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various fruit bats chiefly of the genus Pteropus, having a foxlike muzzle and small, pointed ears.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large frugivorous bat; any bat of the family Pteropodidæ, and especially of the genus Pteropus, as the well-known P. rubricollis: so called from the fox-like shape of the head. There are many species, constituting collectively one of the prime divisions of the order Chiroptera.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Zoöl.) a fruit bat of the genus Pteropus, which has a head resembling that of a fox.
  • the colugo.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A large Australasian bat, of the genera Pteropus or Acerodon, having a fox-like face.
  • noun The cyprinid fish Epalzeorhynchos kalopterus.
  • noun A device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley, and running along a length of cable, used for transporting across ravines etc.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large bat with a head that resembles the head of a fox

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