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  • noun Plural form of entomologist.

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Examples

  • My parents are entomologists, or in other words, big, fat bug nuts, and we’d stopped for the night on the way home from the twenty-fifth annual Putnam County Cockroach Appreciation Conference in Texas.

    The Multiplying Menace Amanda Marrone 2010

  • It also prefers large cities over rural or marshy areas—thus earning the nickname among entomologists as "the urban mosquito."

    Attack of the Urban Mosquitoes Aatekah Mir 2011

  • And we; re called entomologists regal moth rosy maple moth

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • And we; re called entomologists regal moth rosy maple moth

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • He held in one hand a shattered lantern mounted on the end of a pole, and in the other a long - handled net of gauze, such as entomologists use to catch moths withal.

    The Golden Fleece 1896

  • He closed it with a thrilling conceit of the right thing written down; such as entomologists feel when they have pinned the rare insect.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • He closed it with a thrilling conceit of the right thing written down; such as entomologists feel when they have pinned the rare insect.

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • He closed it with a thrilling conceit of the right thing written down; such as entomologists feel when they have pinned the rare insect.

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • These urban mosquitoes are what entomologists call "container mosquitoes."

    Attack of the Urban Mosquitoes Aatekah Mir 2011

  • Ms. Bennett was one of the first people in the South to report seeing Megacopta cribraria, an insect native to Asia that likely stowed away on a flight in 2009 and entered the U.S. through Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, entomologists say.

    Bug Battle: An Invasive Plant Now Faces Its Own Attacker Valerie Bauerlein 2011

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