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PRONUNCIATION OF FRUIT BAT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FRUIT BAT

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Fruit bat is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FRUIT BAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fruit bat

Megabat

Megabats constitute the suborder Megachiroptera, family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera. They are also called fruit bats, old world fruit bats, or, especially the genera Acerodon and Pteropus, flying foxes.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FRUIT BAT

fruit basket
fruit body
fruit bowl
fruit cake
fruit cocktail
fruit cup
fruit dish
fruit drink
fruit drop
fruit farm
fruit farmer
fruit farming
fruit fly
fruit gum
fruit juice
fruit knife
fruit knives
fruit machine
fruit salad
fruit salts

WORDS THAT END LIKE FRUIT BAT

blind as a bat
carry one´s bat
cricket bat
horseshoe bat
insectivorous bat
off one´s own bat
off the bat
old bat
right off the bat
straight bat
vampire bat

Synonyms and antonyms of fruit bat in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «fruit bat» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FRUIT BAT

Find out the translation of fruit bat to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fruit bat from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fruit bat» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

果蝠
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

murciélago de la fruta
570 millions of speakers

English

fruit bat
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फल बल्ला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخفافيش الفاكهة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

крылан
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fruit bat
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফলের ব্যাট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

roussette
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kelawar buah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fruchtfledermaus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フルーツバット
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

과일 박쥐
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Woh woh
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dơi ăn quả
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பழ பேட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्रुट बॅट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

meyve yarasası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

frutta pipistrello
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

owoc gacek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

крилан
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lilieci de fructe
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νυχτερίδα φρούτα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vrugtevlermuis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

frukt bat
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fruit bat
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fruit bat

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FRUIT BAT»

The term «fruit bat» is regularly used and occupies the 70.190 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FRUIT BAT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fruit bat

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRUIT BAT»

Discover the use of fruit bat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fruit bat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Short-Tailed Fruit Bat: A Study in Plant-Animal Interactions
In The Short-tailed Fruit Bat, Theodore Fleming examines Carollia's role in the ecology of tropical forests.
Theodore H. Fleming, 1988
2
Forebrain Atlas of the Short-tailed Fruit Bat, Carollia ...
The Forebrain Atlas of the Short-tailed Fruit Bat, Carollia perpicillata, is unique among brain atlases.
Frank Scalia, John J Rasweiler IV, Jason Scalia, 2013
3
Field Guide to Mammals of Southern Africa
Epomophorus wahlbergi Epomophorus crypluws Epomophorus angolensis Epomops dobsonii Behaviour: Both species roost in caves during the day but the Egyptian Fruit-bat, being the only fruit-bat to echolocate, utilizes the darkest areas ; ...
Chris Stuart, Tilde Stuart, 2001
4
A Catalogue of the Collection of Mammals in the Field ...
459 Attadillo 28 Attractive Harvest Mouse 262 Attwater's Field Mouse 231 Attwater's Pocket Gopher 310 Attwater's Swamp Hare 367 Attwater's Wood Rat 270 Aubry's Genetta 399 Augkis 361 Australian Fruit Bat 491 Autocrat Timber Wolf 413 ...
Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1907
5
Fruit Bat Introduction: Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bat, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, Books Llc, Books Group, 2010
6
How to Find a Fruit Bat
Are apples not your thing?
Michelle Robinson, 2013
7
Walker's Mammals of the World
... "flying mouse," and the French chauve-souris means "bald mice." A "bare- backed" fruit bat or flying fox (Pteropus neohibernicus [?l) from New Guinea walking along a branch, photo by Sten Bergman. CHIROPTERA; Family PTEROPODIDAE ...
Ronald M. Nowak, 1999
8
Articles on Megabats, Including: Megabat, Bulmer's Fruit ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
9
Bats of Puerto Rico: An Island Focus and a Caribbean Perspective
Brachyphylla cavernarum Gray, 1834 Antillean Fruit Bat Murcielago Hocico de Cerdo Taxonomy: The genus Brachyphylla is the sole member of the phyllostomid subfamily Brachyphyllinae (Simmons, 2005). Brachyphylla contains only two ...
Michael R. Gannon, 2005
10
Mindoro Stripe-Faced Fruit Bat
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Mindoro Stripe-faced Fruit Bat (Styloctenium mindorensis), nicknamed the "flying fox" for its foxlike face (although it is not a flying fox bat), is a species of large Philippine megabat.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FRUIT BAT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fruit bat is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Is it time to bring back bushmeat?
... it was traced back to a toddler in Guinea who likely contracted Ebola from an infected straw-coloured fruit bat. Mostly, it's not consumption that ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Liberia confirms third Ebola case in new outbreak
Experts are speculating that the victim could have been infected by an entirely new variation of the virus from an animal such as a fruit bat. «Dispatch Times, Jul 15»
3
PARIS TN: Summer reading program wraps up
Tarter introduced a crowd of about 60 children and 30 adults to a flying squirrel, Harris hawk, a straw-colored fruit bat, a yellow-naped green ... «Paris Post Intelligencer, Jul 15»
4
8 Celebrities Who Look Like A Quality Street
“Taylor Swift looks like a horse,” “Nicole Kidman's looks like fruit bat,” “21 celebs who look like animals…” It's all rather unfair. As such, HuffPost ... «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
5
Viral evolution Keeping a watchful eye on Ebola
... rate of evolution caused by the jump to a new host species from the natural reservoir of the virus, which is thought to be the fruit bat. However ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
6
Perfect summer song: short, melodic with a killer hook
Musical taste is subjective, of course, so the same song that provides the perfect theme for one person's summer may sound like a rabid fruit bat ... «Times Colonist, Jul 15»
7
Summer songs soak up the sunshine
Musical taste is subjective, of course, so the same song that provides the perfect theme for one person's summer may sound like a rabid fruit bat ... «HeraldNet, Jul 15»
8
Birds, Bugs, Snakes, and More at Land Between the Lake's Cool …
Meet a fruit bat, Gila monster, Eurasian eagle, and a few other surprise critters, and discover the cool ways these awesome animals survive and ... «Clarksville Online, Jul 15»
9
Column: Young Stafford family to become missionaries in Papua …
It was a huge fruit bat, with a wingspan of probably two feet. The natives not only killed it, they roasted and ate it. I asked Laken about how she ... «Fredericksburg.com, Jul 15»
10
Songs of summer soak up the sunshine over the years
Musical taste is subjective, of course, so the same song that provides the perfect theme for one person's summer may sound like a rabid fruit bat ... «Press of Atlantic City, Jul 15»

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