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Flying fox   /flˈaɪɪŋ fɑks/   Listen
Flying fox

noun
1.
Large bat with a head that resembles the head of a fox.





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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
... solemn flapping. Then, as each little Fox approached the tree, the Foxes who were there already screamed, and swore in dreadfully bad language at the visitor. For every little Fox on the tree was afraid some other Flying Fox would eat all the figs, and as each visitor arrived he was assailed with cries of, "Get away you're not ...
— Dot and the Kangaroo • Ethel C. Pedley


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