flying fox

English

A pair of flying foxes.

Noun

flying fox (plural flying foxes)

A large Australasian bat, of the genera Pteropus or Acerodon in the family Pteropodidae, having a fox-like face.
Hypernyms: fruit bat, megabat
Any bat of the family Pteropodidae (see Usage notes).
The cyprinid fish Epalzeorhynchos kalopterus.
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
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

Descendants

Australian Kriol: flain foks

Translations

bat of the genera Pteropus or Acerodon

Angal Enen: keim
Australian Kriol: flain foks
Bislama: flaengfoks
Burmese: လင်းဆွဲ (my) (lang:hcwai:)
Catalan: guineu voladora f
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)
Korean: 날여우박쥐 (naryeoubakjwi)
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
Tày: ca cào
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