lepidopterist

noun

lep·i·dop·ter·ist ˌle-pə-ˈdäp-tə-rist

: a specialist in lepidopterology

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Plucked from tangles of jungle undergrowth to a pin-speckled board, the lepidopterist's oath. — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2018 Madeline Champagne, an amateur lepidopterist — someone who studies moths and butterflies — said monarchs have a short life cycle, going from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly in about four weeks. — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021 The Alte Pforzheimer Hütte, a stone house originally built in 1901, served as a base camp for the lepidopterists hunting rare moths in the Italian Alps. — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025 Jason Dombroskie, a lepidopterist at Cornell University, tells the New York Times. — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022 See All Example Sentences for lepidopterist

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1826, in the meaning defined above

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