fruit bat

Questions about fruit bat

What does fruit bat mean?

fruit bat means "large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit".

What is another word for fruit bat?

Close synonyms include megabat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fruit bat a common word?

fruit bat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.