fruit bat in English
noun
1
a bat with a long snout and large eyes, feeding chiefly on fruit or nectar and found mainly in the Old World tropics.
Certain bats, like the short-tailed fruit bat , drop guano containing 40,000 to 50,000 seeds in a night.
noun
megabat
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1. Chiroptera, order Chiroptera - an old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder MegaChiroptera (fruit bats); suborder MicroChiroptera (insectivorous bats) fruit bat , megabat - large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit