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speluncer, spelunker
1. Someone who makes a hobby of exploring caves, "a caver".
2. Another term for a speleologist.
3. Etymology: "A cave bug; one who explores caves as a hobby", 1942, formed from obsolete spelunk "cave, cavern" (c.1300), from Old French spelunque, from Latin spelunca, "a cave, cavern, grotto", from Greek spelynx (genitive spelyngos). An adjective, speluncar "of a cave" is recorded from 1855.
2. Another term for a speleologist.
3. Etymology: "A cave bug; one who explores caves as a hobby", 1942, formed from obsolete spelunk "cave, cavern" (c.1300), from Old French spelunque, from Latin spelunca, "a cave, cavern, grotto", from Greek spelynx (genitive spelyngos). An adjective, speluncar "of a cave" is recorded from 1855.
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spelunc-, spelunk-
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