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echolocates

echolocates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of echolocate.

Meaning of echolocate

Verb

echolocate (third-person singular simple present echolocates, present participle echolocating, simple past and past participle echolocated)

  1. (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

Questions about echolocates

What is echolocates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Echolocates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of echolocate.

Words near echolocates in the dictionary

  1. echolessness
  2. echolike
  3. echolocalization
  4. echolocate
  5. echolocated
  6. echolocates
  7. echolocating
  8. echolocation
  9. echolocational
  10. echolocations
  11. echolocative

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