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UK
/lˈɛpɪdˌɒptəɹˌɪst/
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NOUN
- an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths
How To Use lepidopterist In A Sentence
- A rare comma butterfly was spotted in the garden in Grassington of lepidopterist James Birdsall.
- A magnificent convolvulus hawk moth was spotted by the Suffolk lepidopterists gliding in downriver along their bank. Wildwood
- Some lepidopterists believe that the Xerces Blue was the same species as Silvery Blue.
- When I walk through the sand dunes, I think of Vladimir Nabokov, the most famous amateur lepidopterist of the century. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
- Pittaway is a well travelled lepidopterist with a passion for sphingids.
- Although I am a lepidopterist, not a visual ecologist, I am often asked just what colors in flowers best attract butterflies.
- The illustrator, Dr Ing František Gregor, Dr. h.c, is known as both a lepidopterist and dipterist but is particularly known worldwide as a scientific illustrator of insects and plants.
- ‘Butterflies’ relates the story of a lepidopterist who has sought a visa to enter the United States.
- And in August, Barry sometimes used to take the lepidopterists digging under the tree for the buried chrysalises of the moth. Wildwood
- The numinous is a reliably elusive theme for a writer, and Burnside hunts it down like an indefatigable lepidopterist. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph