1. Any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
   "The harpy bat's unusual nasal structure helps it locate ripe fruit";
   - harpy, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat

Derived forms: harpy bats

Type of: fruit bat, megabat

Part of: genus Nyctimene, Nyctimene