Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed or engaged in the scientific study of Lepidoptera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One who studies the Lepidoptera.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who studies
lepidoptery ; someone who studiesbutterflies andmoths .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths
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Examples
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But there was one subject around which our different lives came together and found deep connection: the author and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov.
Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift Tamsin Smith 2011
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In an extract from his new book The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals, Patrick Barkham goes on the trail of one of Britain's most elusive butterflies• Audio slideshow: the love of butterflies• How I became a lepidopterist
My search for the purple emperor butterfly Patrick Barkham 2010
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He is Robert Michael Pyle, lepidopterist, naturalist, conservationist and writer who knows the taxonomy and biogeographical distribution of the nation 's pale ales and lagers as well as he knows North America' s butterfly fauna.
Butterfly Quest Harry Zirlin 2010
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If a birdwatcher can have a 'big year,' why not a lepidopterist?.
Butterfly Quest Harry Zirlin 2010
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Is someone who studies butterflies and moths called an entomologist, a lepidopterist or an ornithologist?
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But there was one subject around which our different lives came together and found deep connection: the author and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov.
Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift Tamsin Smith 2011
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I was at the butterfly exhibit yesterday at the Natural History Museum (a highlight of my cultural life in NYC) and the curators included some information about Nabokov who, as you probably already know, was an impassioned lepidopterist who combined trekking and writing.
Selling pages from a writer’s notebook as a painter would his sketches 2009
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If you're forewarned about the only ill-advised and mildly amusing sexual simile in the book - "Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her" – then there's nothing else risible to fear, which for a novel with penetration on almost every page is an achievement.
The Shape of Her by Rowan Somerfield Francesca Segal 2010
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Someone taught the few youngsters in our crowd coconut painting, and a long-time Cuban refugee lepidopterist taught a minicourse for ages eight to twelve at the community college.
Ann Beattie's 'The Rock': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010
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Someone taught the few youngsters in our crowd coconut painting, and a long-time Cuban refugee lepidopterist taught a minicourse for ages eight to twelve at the community college.
Ann Beattie's 'The Rock': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010
mollusque commented on the word lepidopterist
Should I abandon my art, choose another line of achievement, take up chess seriously, or become, say, a lepidopterist, or spend a dozen years as an obscure scholar making a Russian translation of Paradise Lost that would cause hacks to shy and asses to kick?
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 97
June 13, 2009