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Meanings of tube-nosed bat in English

Any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes.

        Synonyms
        Examples for "harpy"
        Examples for "harpy"
        1
        There was a noise about Queen Bess lacking in her harpy contemporaries.
        A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
        2
        The harpy-chivvyings of partygirl-papparazzi-fashionistas who kept flattering her away from better longings.
        Existence
        3
        The priestess laughed again; it was the shrill cry of a harpy.
        Monster Hunter International
        4
        She looked like a harpy after a no-holds-barred row with her sisters.
        The Door Into Summer
        5
        If a rifle will kill a harpy, it'll kill a damnthing too.
        Little Fuzzy
        Usage of tube-nosed bat in English
        1
        On the University of York's website Irwin said that the species is very difficult to tell apart from other tube-nosed bat species.
        The South African