echolocate
verbEtymology From echo + locate. Coined by American zoologist Donald Griffin in 1944.
1
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:
- Derived terms
- echolocative, nonecholocating