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echolocate

verb

Etymology

From echo + locate. Coined by American zoologist Donald Griffin in 1944.

  1. borrowed from locātus
  2. compounded as echolocate — “echo + locate”

Definitions

  1. To locate by means of echolocation.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA