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Lepidopterist

noun
1.
An entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths.  Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterologist.






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"Lepidopterist" Quotes from Famous Books



... entomology, entomologist, entomologic, chrsalis, pupa, cicada, cocoon, credpitaculum, entomophilous, entornophily, entomtaxy, entomotomy, insecticidal, insectifuge, insectile, larva, lepidopterist, larvarium, stridor, stridulate, stridulation, silphology, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... chopping up mankind into more and more infinitesimal fragments. We feel a pride in being spoken of as 'specialists'—and yet what is a specialist? The nine-hundred-and-ninety-ninth part of a man. Call me not an entomologist, call me a lepidopterist, if you will—though, really, that is too broad a term for a man who is not so much taken up with moths generally as with the third ring of the antennae of the ...
— Prose Fancies • Richard Le Gallienne



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