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(obsolete) An Indian flying fox (Pteropus medius, syn. Pteropus giganteus), found throughout south Asia..
Cheiroptera.—Three species of bats, Wurbagool, Pteropus medius; Nyctinomus plicatus; and Rhinolphus Dukhunensis.
The Wurbagool. Pteropus Edwardsii, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xv. 92. Temm. Monog. ii. 61. P. medius, Temm. Monog. i. 176. P. leucocephalus, Hodgson. Edwards, Birds, iv. t. 180.
My attention was one morning directed to a colony of flying foxes (Pteropus edwardsii) […] The natives call this bat the “wurbagool.”
‘Will your honour shoot me one of those wurbagools?’ ¶ ‘Why, what do you want a wurbagool for?’ ¶ ‘You see, my lord, I get rheumatic pains in my leg sometimes, and the bone of a wurbagool tied round the ankle with a string of a black cow’s hair is, they say, the best cure.’
Use wurbagool when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wurbagool means (obsolete) An Indian flying fox (Pteropus medius, syn. Pteropus giganteus), found throughout south Asia..
Common synonyms include greater Indian fruit bat.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Cheiroptera.—Three species of bats, Wurbagool, Pteropus medius; Nyctinomus plicatus; and Rhinolphus Dukhunensis.
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