Definitions
Etymologies
- From entomology + -ist. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Jeff Tomberlin, a Texas A&M entomologist, is looking into the possibility that black soldier fly larvae -- "grubs" to the uninitiated -- could be used to turn livestock manure into high-protein feed.”
“Tristan Martens, a retired entomologist, is shaken by the discovery of his mother's sewing table in a New York antique shop.”
The Deadwood Beetle: Summary and book reviews of The Deadwood Beetle by Mylene Dressler.
“Dr. Dario Espina - Perez, a Latin American entomologist and beekeeper, disagrees strongly with this B-movie scenario in his excellent book.”
“A definition is a tag, like the label the entomologist ties to the pin after he has the butterfly nicely dead.”
“The entomologist was the last of our pew-full to give heed to the pulpit.”
“Whether or not my daughter is able to put "entomologist" down on the list of things she'd like to be some day is rather beside my point, however.”
“He was a kind of entomologist and botanist, a kind of philologist (one is a little astonished to find that rather curious and very charlatanish person and parson Sir Herbert”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
“New insects aren't uncommon, but an Arizona entomologist has discovered a new moth among a genus of normally dull moths that has pink underwings.”
“Joan Weldon , who plays a heroic entomologist in the film, will be present to introduce it.”
“Iowa State University entomologist Aaron Gassmann 's discovery that western corn rootworms in four northeast Iowa fields have evolved to resist the natural pesticide made by Monsanto's corn plant could encourage some farmers to switch to insect-proof seeds sold by competitors of the St. Louis crop biotechnology giant, and to return to spraying harsher synthetic insecticides on their fields.”
The Wall Street Journal: Monsanto Corn Plant Losing Bug Resistance
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘entomologist’.
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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List of words to expand my vocabulary
does what it says on the tin, and is severely needed.
indolent, insolent, idly, divulge, tattle, benign, roguish, daintily, idle, dowdy, sordid, wanton and 242 more...
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GRE
acrimony, verisimilitude, tenebrious, tenebrous, dishabille, unfettered, deplorable, woebegone, credulity, naïveté, mitigate, meliorate and 475 more...
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MY WORDS
egoist, entomologists, egotist, altruist, introvert, extrovert, ambivert, misanthrope, misogynist, misogamist, ascetic, Altruism and 193 more...
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occupations
discerner, discriminator, percipient, spectator, idealogue, synthesist, semiotician, pharmacopolist, pharmacognosist, pedant, maverick, trickster and 57 more...
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Nabokovia
slime, mnemoptical, reverbed, forefeel, fair copy, scriggle, gaufrette, inamorata, wanter, noctambule, incarnadine, intercadence and 59 more...
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Light and Shade
apotheosis, rote, whet, enisle, delve, lissome, clamour, latent, virgule, saboteur, covenants, curb and 49 more...
Tweets
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mollusque It was now the publisher who bore the brunt of having my hand transformed directly into printed characters; and I know he disliked the procedure as a well-bred entomologist may find revolting an irregular insect's skipping some generally accepted stage of metamorphosis.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 235 Jun 13, 2009
john Someone who studies bugs. Not to be confused with an etymologist. Dec 24, 2006