tube-nosed fruit bat

Questions about tube-nosed fruit bat

What is another word for tube-nosed fruit bat?

It depends which tube-nosed fruit bat you mean. In the sense “any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes”, the synonyms are harpy, harpy bat, tube-nosed bat. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of tube-nosed fruit bat?

WordNet records no antonym for tube-nosed fruit bat. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for tube-nosed fruit bat come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for tube-nosed fruit batAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for tube-nosed fruit batWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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