Usually means: Large bat, fruit-eating species.
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  1. flying fox: Merriam-Webster
  2. flying fox: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flying fox: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flying fox: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flying fox: Vocabulary.com
  6. flying-fox, flying fox: Wordnik
  7. flying fox: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flying fox: Wiktionary
  9. flying fox: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. flying fox: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Flying fox, flying fox: Dictionary.com
  12. Flying Fox (disambiguation), Flying Fox (horse), Flying Fox, Flying-fox, Flying fox (cablecar), Flying fox (fish), Flying fox, The Flying Fox (film), The Flying Fox: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. flying fox: Rhymezone
  14. flying fox: FreeDictionary.org
  15. flying fox: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. flying fox: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. flying fox: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. flying fox: Encyclopedia

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  1. Flying-fox, flying fox: Medical dictionary

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  1. Flying Fox: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (flying fox)

noun:  A large Australasian bat, of the genera Pteropus or Acerodon in the family Pteropodidae, having a fox-like face.
noun:  Any bat of the family Pteropodidae (see Usage notes).
noun:  A cyprinid fish of species Epalzeorhynchos kalopterus.
noun:  A device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley, and running along a length of cable, used for transporting across ravines etc.
noun:  A cable-operated gyroscopic camera that is suspended on a ropeway, used in filming motion pictures and sporting events.

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