Meaning & use
Chiropterologist
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A scientist who studies bats.
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The chiropterologist spent months tracking a colony of fruit bats in the rainforest canopy.
Local chiropterologists were called in to assess the bat population in the abandoned mine.
A note on using this word
From Greek cheir ('hand') and pteron ('wing'), referring to a bat's wing structure, plus the suffix '-ologist.'
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