tube-nosed_fruit_bat has definitions from the field of zoology
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[ noun ] (zoology) any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes

Used in print

(James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)

`` The human ego being what it is '' , I put_in , `` science_fiction has always assumed that the creatures on the planets of a_thousand larger solar_systems than ours must look_like gigantic tube-nosed_fruit_bats .

Related terms

fruit_bat Nyctimene

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