roussette

French, in allusion to the color. See russet.

roussette (plural roussettes)

1. Any of certain fruit bats:
   1. the Mauritian flying fox (Pteropus niger, syn. Pteropus vulgaris) inhabiting islands of the Indian Ocean.
   2. the genus Rousettus of flying foxes.
2. Any small shark of the genus Scylliorhinus (syn. Scyllium); the dogfish.

• roussette at OneLook Dictionary Search
• roussette in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• roussette in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

• outsteers, rousettes

• IPA^(key): /ʁu.sɛt/

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roussette f (plural roussettes)

1. flying fox (mammal)

• renard volant

• “roussette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).