WordNet
n. an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths [syn: lepidopterist]
Usage examples of "butterfly collector".
It wouldn't be fair to Ozias Froats or to me to suggest that I was bagging him like a butterfly collector.
For generations to come our scientists will merely count and classify, like an eighteenth-century butterfly collector.
I began to feel strange tentacles of excitement in my bellythe way a butterfly collector must feel when he thinks he has just seen a new species fluttering in yon bushes.
Somehow, in this moment, he could only think that he was the object of some sort of racial revenge on every butterfly collector that ever lived.
We've got all kinds of exotic cover in this trade from hotshot international journalist to butterfly collector but in local situations you don't need more than a tea tray.