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Noun: tube-nosed bat
  1. Any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
    - harpy, harpy bat, tube-nosed fruit bat

Derived forms: tube-nosed bats

Type of: fruit bat, megabat

Part of: genus Nyctimene, Nyctimene

Encyclopedia: Tube-nosed bat