Batologist or Chiropterologist if you will- and I am!

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Contents

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Noun
    • 1.2.1 Quotations
    • 1.2.2 Synonyms
    • 1.2.3 Related terms
    • 1.2.4 Translations

English

WOTD – 30 July 2012

Etymology

Chiroptera +‎ -ologist

Noun

chiropterologist (plural chiropterologists)

1. Someone who studies bats (the flying mammal).  [quotations ▲]
   • 2001, Kathleen Meyer, Barefoot Hearted: A Wild Life Among Wildlife, Villard (2001), ISBN 9780375504389, page 88:

     Several years later, after reading three of his books on bats, I placed a call to the venerable chiropterologist Dr. M. Brock Fenton, known as the "batman" of York University in Toronto.

     *Comment from this blogger- I know Dr. Fenton and he is ABSOLUTELY wonderful and is most certainly a good example of a chiropterologist!*

Quotations

• For more examples of usage of this term, see the citations page.

Synonyms

• batologist (colloquial or humorous)

Related terms

• Chiroptera

Translations

[show ▼]one who studies bats"

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Contents

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology 1
    • 1.1.1 Noun
  • 1.2 Etymology 2
    • 1.2.1 Noun
      • 1.2.1.1 Synonyms

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek βάτος (batos, “bramble”) +‎ -ologist.

Noun

batologist (plural batologists)

1. A botanist who studies the genus Rubus.  [quotations ▲]
   • 1898, Journal of Botany, vol. 36:

     The brambles were backward this season, and I could do little with them ; but I am sure that this part of Ireland is a good hunting-ground for the batologist.

Etymology 2

From bat +‎ -ologist.

Noun

batologist (plural batologists)

1. (colloquial or humorous) Someone who studies bats (the flying mammal).

Synonyms

• chiropterologist"