Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To study or practise entomology; gather entomological specimens. Also spelled entomologise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To collect specimens in the study of entomology.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To collect specimens in the study of entomology.

Etymologies

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entomology +‎ -ize

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Examples

  • Such a party was highly agreeable to Rosalie; but not finding it equally suitable to my taste, I presently fell back, and began to botanize and entomologize along the green banks and budding hedges, till the company was considerably in advance of me, and I could hear the sweet song of the happy lark: then my spirit of misanthropy began to melt away beneath the soft, pure air and genial sunshine; but sad thoughts of early childhood, and yearnings for departed joys, or for a brighter future lot, arose instead.

    Agnes Grey 1931

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