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n. large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit
Word Usage
"Pettigrew et al. (1989) further argued that colugos (aka flying lemurs, or dermopterans) were also part of the megabat-primate clade, and essentially late-surviving relics which resembled the common ancestor of the megabat-primate clade."