Akademik

harpy bat

noun

any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes

• Syn: ↑harpy, ↑tube-nosed bat, ↑tube-nosed fruit bat

• Hypernyms: ↑fruit bat, ↑megabat

• Member Holonyms: ↑Nyctimene, ↑genus Nyctimene

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noun also harpy (-es)

1. : any of various East Indian fruit bats having prominent tubular nostrils and constituting the genus Nyctimene

2. : an East Indian insectivorous bat (Harpiocephalus harpia)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.