Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of entomology that deals with lepidopterans.
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- noun The
scientific study of thelepidoptera (butterflies andmoths ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of entomology dealing with Lepidoptera
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Examples
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Vladimir Nabokov was totally consumed by two passions: literature and lepidoptery.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Butterfly Art Of Vladimir Nabokov: A Love Story Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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Vladimir Nabokov was totally consumed by two passions: literature and lepidoptery.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Butterfly Art Of Vladimir Nabokov: A Love Story Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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Vladimir Nabokov was totally consumed by two passions: literature and lepidoptery.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Butterfly Art Of Vladimir Nabokov: A Love Story Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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Vladimir Nabokov was totally consumed by two passions: literature and lepidoptery.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Butterfly Art Of Vladimir Nabokov: A Love Story Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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Vladimir Nabokov was totally consumed by two passions: literature and lepidoptery.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Butterfly Art Of Vladimir Nabokov: A Love Story Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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Vladimir Nabokov was totally consumed by two passions: literature and lepidoptery.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Butterfly Art Of Vladimir Nabokov: A Love Story Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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Instead of studying lepidoptery, Won Kim was forced to attend business college in Seoul.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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It was perhaps partly this love of detail that led him to lepidoptery in the first place, and would eventually result in his spending six years as semiofficial curator of Lepidoptera at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, often working fourteen hours a day.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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It is also the name of one of the most eminent journals of lepidoptery.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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It was perhaps partly this love of detail that led him to lepidoptery in the first place, and would eventually result in his spending six years as semiofficial curator of Lepidoptera at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, often working fourteen hours a day.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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