echolocate en · VERB
Etymology
From echo + locate. Coined by American zoologist Donald Griffin in 1944.
Meanings
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(intransitive, transitive) To locate by means of echolocation.
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2013, pages 206–7:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| echolocated | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| echolocated | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| echolocates | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| echolocating | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Deriveds
echolocative · nonecholocating
Translations (2)
cy adlaisleoli (to locate by means of echolocation) · pt ecolocalizar (to locate by means of echolocation)