Definitions

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  • noun a zoologist who studies insects

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Examples

  • A very famous "bugologist" had come to call on us.

    I Married a Ranger Dama Margaret Smith 1932

  • In it was a stranger -- a man who looked like a "bugologist," as nearly as I can describe him.

    The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine" 1908

  • Ney of the Department of Geodetic Survey of Canada, who was interested in the work of determining the latitude and longitude of ports en route; Mr. Brown, of the Federal Department of Agriculture, whom we regarded as the bugologist.

    To the Top of the World With the Eastern Arctic Patrol 1936

  • Instinctively one would have called him "Professor", though whether naturalist, geologist, or plain "bugologist", one would have had difficulty in determining.

    The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine" 1908

  • African's opinion the highest that could be paid to a man or a boy, and hurried off to wake "the bugologist" as be disrespectfully termed the professor.

    The Boy Aviators in Africa John Henry Goldfrap 1898

  • After restaurateur Alexis Chambon met Michel Collin, a bugologist (ok, an entomologist), he thought it would be a wonderful idea to launch a restaurant that serves all kinds of insects.

    Why Travel To France 2009

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