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Definition of Flying fox
1. Noun. Large bat with a head that resembles the head of a fox.
Definition of Flying fox
1. Noun. A pair of flying foxes.A large Australasian bat, of the genus ''Pteropus'', having a fox-like face. ¹
2. Noun. A device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley, and running along a length of cable, used for transporting across ravines etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flying Fox
Literary usage of Flying fox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1904)
"The technical name of the Indian flying fox. ... The common flying fox of India
must therefore be known as Pteropus ..."
2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"r- pillars, birds' egg», aud young birds »• devoured by them ; aud the Singhalese :i»
thut the flying-fox will even attack i (.•>*- ! snake. ..."
3. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"That is the flip-flap of the Flying-fox, The Flying-fox from o'er the water.
The Flying-fox from the side of the forest, The Flying-fox from out the islets. ..."
4. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"Super, the flying-fox (Pteropus), Mer. Repeat the previous figure ... Release thumbs.
Say: a a«, which is the noise made by the flying-fox. ..."
5. Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and Topographical by James Emerson Tennent (1859)
"... of Ceylon (the “Flying-fox,” as it is usually called by Europeans,) measures
from three to four feet from point to point ..."
6. Eleven Years in Ceylon: Comprising Sketches of the Field Sports and Natural by Jonathan Forbes, George Turnour (1841)
"flying fox. — Jungle Path. — Accidents to Post-office Runners. — Mortality amongst
Wild Animals. — Horse-keeper killed.— Curious Case of circumstantial ..."
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