flying fox

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   large bat with a head that resembles the head of a fox

   Broaderfruit bat

   Part ofPteropus

Questions about flying fox

What does flying fox mean?

flying fox means "large bat with a head that resembles the head of a fox".

Is flying fox a common word?

flying fox is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.