tube-nosed bat

noun

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

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

• Hypernyms: ↑fruit bat, ↑megabat

• Member Holonyms: ↑Nyctimene, ↑genus Nyctimene

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noun

: any of several fruit bats (genus Nyctimene) of Australia and the southwest Pacific distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes

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n. an Old World bat with tubular nostrils: ●

a) a fruit bat found chiefly in New Guinea and Sulawesi (genus Nyctimene, family Pteropodidae)

b) an insectivorous Asian bat (genus Murina, family Vespertilionidae)