flying fox

English

A pair of flying foxes.

Noun

flying fox (plural flying foxes)

1. A large Australasian bat, of the genera Pteropus or Acerodon in the family Pteropodidae, having a fox-like face.

   Hypernyms: fruit bat, megabat

2. Any bat of the family Pteropodidae (see Usage notes).
3. The cyprinid fish Epalzeorhynchos kalopterus.
4. A device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley, and running along a length of cable, used for transporting across ravines etc.

   Synonym: zipline

5. A cable-operated gyroscopic camera that is suspended on a ropeway, used in filming motion pictures and sporting events.

Usage notes

• According to some sources, "flying fox" may be used to refer to the whole family, whereas others use the common terms "fruit bat" or "megabat" to refer to the family. In other languages, the corresponding terms may have different coverages, see e.g. German and Finnish in the translation table.

Derived terms

• giant golden-crowned flying fox

Translations

bat of the genera Pteropus or Acerodon

• Angal Enen: keim
• Bislama: flaengfoks
• Burmese: လင်းဆွဲ (my) (lang:hcwai:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狐蝠 (zh) (húfú)

• Czech: kaloň (cs) m
• Darkinjung: wannagan
• Dutch: vleerhond (nl) m, vliegende hond m
• Finnish: lentävä koira, lenkko (Pteropus only)
• French: renard volant (fr) m
• German: Eigentlicher Flughund m (term also covers genera Mirimiri, Neopteryx, Pteralopex and Styloctenium)
• Greek: ιπτάμενη αλεπού f (iptámeni alepoú)
• Hungarian: repülőkutya (hu)
• Indonesian: kalong (id)
• Irish: ialtóg na meas f
• Japanese: 大蝙蝠 (オオコウモリ, ōkōmori)
• Khmer: ជ្រឹង (km) (crɨng)
• Kriol: flain foks
• Malay: keluang
• Polish: rudawka f
• Portuguese: raposa voadora f
• Romanian: vulpe zburătoare f
• Russian: лету́чая лиси́ца f (letúčaja lisíca)
• Spanish: zorro volador m
• Ukrainian: крила́н m (krylán)
• Vietnamese: dơi quạ
• Volapük: pterop
• Vurës: qërët
• Wardaman: ganben

bat of the family Pteropodidae — see megabat

fish Epalzeorhynchos kalopterus

• Finnish: kuonobarbi

device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 纜道／缆道 (lǎndào)

• Finnish: köysirata (fi)
• Maori: retirere
• Polish: tyrolka (pl) f
• Russian: тарза́нка (ru) f (tarzánka)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Danish: ^{(please verify)} flyvende hund
• French: ^{(please verify)} renard volant (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} roussette (fr) f
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} kalong (id)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} volpe volante
• Kriol: ^{(please verify)} blanbo, ^{(please verify)} dinga
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} lidojošā lapsa
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} skraidančioji lapė=
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} flyghund
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} dơi quạ

Further reading

• Pteropus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Flying Fox (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• zip line on Wikipedia.Wikipedia