| 单词 | fruit bat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfruit bat fruit bat n. a member of the sub-order Megachiroptera, which includes the flying-foxes ( Pteropus) and other fruit-eating bats. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] > suborder Megachiroptera (fruit bat) fruit bat1877 1877 W. S. Dallas in Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 269 The young African Fruit Bats born in the Zoological Gardens were covered with short, smooth hair. 1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 22 Dec. 810/1 That curious species of bats known as the fruit-bat or flying-fox. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 8 Nov. 10/2 The Indian fruit bat..is not a novelty in the menagerie. 1936 Discovery Oct. 307/1 Before the advent of the white man and his cultivated fruits, these great fruit bats lived on scrub figs, berries, ti-tree and gum blossoms for the honey they contained. 1966 V. Serventy Continent in Danger iv. 86 Some of the ‘batteries’ or camps of the fruit bats..number hundreds of thousands of individuals. < as lemmas |
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