wurbagool

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wurbagool (plural wurbagools)

An Indian flying fox (Pteropus medius, syn. Pteropus giganteus), found throughout south Asia.
- 1877, Robert Armitage Sterndale, Seonee, Or Camp Life on the Saptura Range, page 194:
  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.