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spelaeologist

spelaeologist is the alternative form of speleologist.

Meaning of speleologist

Noun

speleologist (plural speleologists)

  1. A person who studies or explores caves or studies the science of speleology.
    • Under this heading M. E. A. Martel, the distinguished speleologist or cave-explorer of Europe, whose researches have recently added considerably to our knowledge of the Adelsberg grotto, furnishes to La Nature an interesting account of the episode in the Lueg-Loch or Lur-Loch, near the Styrian...1894 January, “A subterranean drama”, in Around the World, volume 1, number 2

Forms of spelaeologist

pluralspelaeologists

Questions about spelaeologist

What is spelaeologist the alternative form of?
Spelaeologist is the alternative form of speleologist.

Words near spelaeologist in the dictionary

  1. Spektors
  2. spekulatius
  3. spelaean
  4. spelaeogriphacean
  5. spelaeogriphaceans
  6. spelaeologist
  7. spelaeologists
  8. spelaeology
  9. spelch
  10. spelched
  11. spelches

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