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Flying fox   Listen
noun
Flying fox  n.  (Zool.)
1.
A fruit bat of the genus Pteropus, which has a head resembling that of a fox.
2.
The colugo.





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"Flying fox" Quotes from Famous Books



... native dog (which is a smaller species of the wolf), the wombat, bandicoot, kangaroo-rat, opossum, flying squirrel, flying fox, etc. etc." ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... not think it would come to war here. He showed me a large pistol fastened round his waist by a cartridge belt, and tried to shoot a flying bat with it, but failed. Simile told me that the vampire bat, or flying fox, as they call it here, is good to eat, but I do not think I could eat bat. My lady pig from Sydney is at Apia, but as she only cost thirty-seven shillings I feel doubts as to her quality. Still, in Samoa a pig's ...
— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
... and cannibal Fijians were no exceptions to the general rule, for Dr. Seemann wrote me word that they make pets of the flying fox (bat), the lizard, and parroquet. Captain Wilkes, in his exploring expedition (ii. 122), says the pigeon in the Samoon islands "is commonly kept as a plaything, and particularly by the chiefs. One of our officers unfortunately on one occasion ...
— Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development • Francis Galton
... Creek. Finke, Mount. Fish River. Fitzgerald River. Fitzmaurice River. Fitzroy River. Fletcher's Creek. Flinders Range. Flinders River. Flood's Creek. Flying Fox Creek. Fortescue River. Fossilbrook. Fowler's Bay. Frances, Lake. Fraser's Range. Fremantle. Freeling, Mount. Frew's Pond. Frew River. ...
— The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work • Ernest Favenc
... Bats Flying Fox, Pteropus Edwardsii Their numbers at Peradenia Singularity of their attitudes Food and mode of eating Horse-shoe bat, Rhinolophus Faculty of smell in bat A tiny bat, Scotophilus foromandelicus Extraordinary parasite of ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent


Words linked to "Flying fox" :   megabat, fruit bat


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