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lepidopterist

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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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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.â€

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

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

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

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

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