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fruit of the Jackalberry tree is a favourite of many animals. The
fleshy fruit is oval, almost round in shape and about 1 inch in diameter
and yellow or yellow-green in colour. Five sepals of the calyx of the
flower remain on the bottom of the fruit, their tips curling backwards. "Careful about those bushes," he says. Not two steps ahead of me is a thicket of jackalberries."
fruit bat
noun
any fruit-eating bat, especially of the suborder Megachiroptera, of tropical regions throughout the Old World, typically having erect, catlike ears and large eyes adapted for night vision, and either tailless or with a rudimentary tail, the numerous species ranging in wingspan from 10 in. to 5 feet (25 cm to 1.5 meters).
"At first light, I start for the CATTLE POST. The air is crisp. Fruit bats swoop around me, flying home to rest till nightfall." bermudaonion
6 comments:
I've never heard of a jackalberry - I wonder if they have them around here.
Interesting words and tree.
http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2012/03/wondrous-words-wednesday_07.html
Jackalberry is a new word for me, I love the way it sounds!
I like your two new words this week. Looks like the book is rather exotic.
This looks like a great book for learning about Africa and the plants and animals there. I have heard of a fruit bat (but never seen one). I didn't know there was anything called a jackal berry.
We have quite a lot of fruit bats in Australia, so that wasn't new for me, but I haven't heard of jackalberries before.
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