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lepidopterist

/ ˌlɛpɪˈdɒptərɪst /

noun

  1. a person who studies or collects moths and butterflies
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He said he was a lepidopterist — someone who studies or collects butterflies and moths — “by profession and by training” and “more of a conservationist than any employee who ever worked for Fish and Wildlife.”

A family road trip to the Sinlahekin would be a great way to inspire a budding lepidopterist or biologist.

Nabokov was also a first-rate scientist and lepidopterist, and he concluded that Gregor Samsa had been transformed into a winged beetle.

From Salon

The vibrant blue hues of morpho butterflies’ wings have long captivated not only lepidopterists but also chemists.

That failure came back to haunt lepidopterists, one of whom discovered a nearly identical butterfly in the early 1980s.

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