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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| flying fox | |
| —n | |
| 1. | any large fruit bat, esp any of the genus Pteropus of tropical Africa and Asia: family Pteropodidae |
| 2. | (Austral), (NZ) a cable mechanism used for transportation across a river, gorge, etc |
| 3. | a cable mechanism ridden for fun at an adventure playground, etc |
flying fox
any of about 65 bat species found on tropical islands from Madagascar to Australia and Indonesia and mainland Asia. They are the largest bats; some attain a wingspan of 1.5 m (5 feet), with a head and body length of about 40 cm (16 inches)
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