roussette

French, in allusion to the color. See russet.

roussette (plural roussettes)

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

• “roussette”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “roussette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “roussette”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• outsteers, rousettes

• IPA^(key): /ʁu.sɛt/

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roussette f (plural roussettes)

1. flying fox (mammal)

   Synonym: renard volant

• “roussette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.