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An entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths
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lepidopterist
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1826, from Lepidoptera + -ist .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Someone who studies lepidoptery; someone who studies butterfly and moths.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A lepidopterist or aurelian is a person who specialises in the study of Lepidoptera , members of an order encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies , skipper butterflies , and moth-butterflies . The term also includes hobbyists who are ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths [syn: butterfly collector ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lepidopterist \Lep`i*dop"ter*ist\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One who studies the Lepidoptera.
Usage examples of lepidopterist.
In France, a lepidopterist swore a Lineman told her the captives were to be given to fourth-dimension children, as pets.
I would pin them down with no more mercy than a lepidopterist, wrench answers from their treacherous mouths, and walk away with some semblance of a hypothesis that would lead me to the whereabouts of Debbie Anne Wray, the murderer of Jean Hail, and maybe the definitive solution to global warming.
Simpson is a natural base-ball pitcher, he has an acquired swerve at bandy, and he is a lepidopterist of considerable charm.
American lepidopterist Ted Sargent and others pointed out that peppered moths do not rest on tree trunks, but on the undersides of high branches.
They demonized Sargent, the lepidopterist who had exposed the fraud, marginalized his work, and attempted to ruin his career.
The bartender looked me over the way a lepidopterist inspects an exotic species.
Himself an avid lepidopterist, Fyodor had asked his father in 1916 to be allowed to join a further expedition to Tibet, but was refused because of the war.
Ada is a lepidopterist and since lepidopterists do take closed butterflies between finger and thumb - there is even a famous photograph of Nabokov in just such a pose - this seems merely a vivid sketching of gesture.
As a lepidopterist intrigued by problems of taxonomy, Nabokov had long been concerned with notions of relationship, of identity, resemblance and difference.
Tony examined him shrewdly, like a lepidopterist examining a new and rather ugly species of moth.
Nabokov took to the pages of The New York Review of Books and, like the lepidopterist he was, picked the wings off a translation by Walter Arndt-which, to his rage, went on to win the Bollingen Prize.
Every beginning, it is assumed, must have a neon twinkle of danger about it, and so grandmothers, sissies, lepidopterists and others are warned that the nomenclature that follows is often indecipherable.
Great competition, sir, between the dipterists and the lepidopterists as to which shall get in their candidate.
He collected artificial mites like some batty Victorian lepidopterist.
Great competition, sir, between the dipterists and the lepidopterists as to which shall get in their candidate.