Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The scientific study of insects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That branch of zoölogy which treats of insects, or Insecta.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That part of zoölogy which treats of insects.
- noun A treatise on the science of entomology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
scientific study ofinsects .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of zoology that studies insects
Etymologies
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Examples
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Interest in entomology reveals to hidden half of duo cause of ancient family curse.
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Interest in entomology reveals to hidden half of duo cause of ancient family curse.
May 2009 Maxine 2009
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Interest in entomology reveals to hidden half of duo cause of ancient family curse.
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Interest in entomology reveals to hidden half of duo cause of ancient family curse.
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Interest in entomology reveals to hidden half of duo cause of ancient family curse.
PETRONA Maxine 2009
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Beatles, who I love, because entomology is one of my raisons d'être, which is a French expression that I know.
Excerpt: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer 2005
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Today that division, along with the Department of Plant Pathology and more than half of all faculty positions in entomology, are gone — in part, many professors believe, because there are no profits in such work.
The Kept University 2000
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Today that division, along with the Department of Plant Pathology and more than half of all faculty positions in entomology, are gone — in part, many professors believe, because there are no profits in such work.
The Kept University 2000
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She has a PhD in entomology and "[a] fter a decade or so as a professor, she decided to jump the academic ship and went on to be a dot. com designer, web mistress, forensic consultant, and general attention whore."
Archive 2008-07-01 Peggy 2008
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She has a PhD in entomology and "[a] fter a decade or so as a professor, she decided to jump the academic ship and went on to be a dot. com designer, web mistress, forensic consultant, and general attention whore."
Blogroll Update Peggy 2008
valse commented on the word entomology
I often hear people mispronounce the word etymology by saying this word instead, which makes me giggle. Even funnier is entomologist in place of etymologist.
January 19, 2007
uselessness commented on the word entomology
Can you make a career out of doing etymology? I want that job.
January 19, 2007