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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.; – so called in allusion to the color. See

(Zool.)

A fruit bat, especially the large species (

Pieropus vulgaris

) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.

(Zool.)

Any small shark of the genus

Scyllium

; – called also

dogfish

. See