echolocate

From echo +‎ locate. Coined by American zoologist Donald Griffin in 1944.

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To locate by means of echolocation.
   • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 16 June 2013, pages 206–7:

     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.