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lepidopterist
/ ˌlɛpɪˈdɒptərɪst /
noun
- a person who studies or collects moths and butterflies
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.
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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