flying fox

Noun

 * 1) A large Australasian bat, of the genera  or  in the family, having a fox-like face.
 * 2) Any bat of the family  (see Usage notes).
 * 3) The cyprinid fish.
 * 4) A device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley, and running along a length of cable, used for transporting across ravines etc.
 * 5) A cable-operated gyroscopic camera that is suspended on a ropeway, used in filming motion pictures and sporting events.
 * 1) A cable-operated gyroscopic camera that is suspended on a ropeway, used in filming motion pictures and sporting events.
 * 1) 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.

Translations

 * Angal Enen: keim
 * Australian Kriol: flain foks
 * Bislama: flaengfoks
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Darkinjung: wannagan
 * Dutch:, vliegende hond
 * Finnish: lentävä koira, lenkko
 * French:
 * German: Eigentlicher Flughund
 * Greek: ιπτάμενη αλεπού
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ialtóg na meas
 * Japanese: 大蝙蝠
 * Khmer:
 * Kriol: flain foks
 * Malay: keluang
 * Polish: rudawka
 * Portuguese: raposa voadora
 * Romanian: vulpe zburătoare
 * Russian: лету́чая лиси́ца
 * Spanish: zorro volador
 * Tày: ca cào
 * Ukrainian: крила́н
 * Vietnamese: dơi quạ
 * Volapük: pterop
 * Vurës: qërët
 * Wardaman: ganben


 * Finnish: kuonobarbi


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 纜道
 * Finnish:
 * Maori: retirere
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Danish:
 * French: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Kriol: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: =
 * Swedish: