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A member of the genus Pteropus of fruit-eating bats, found in India, Madagascar, south-east Asia, and Australia.
The Malay frugivorous fox-bat (Pteropus edulis), the largest known bat, found in immense numbers in Java, Sumatra, and adjacent islands, where it…
A genus of large fruit-eating bats comprising most of the flying foxes; a bat of this genus, a flying fox.