lepidopterist
Britishnoun
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Lepidopterist Martin Wills, who records numbers at Hutchinson's Bank Nature Reserve in south London, confirmed that it has been a fantastic butterfly season so far with record numbers of early sightings.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025
The Collector was a comparatively simple pass�butterflies in psychotic transformation turned into pinioned women, perhaps a gothic variation on Lepidopterist Nabokov.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a suggestion, perhaps, in Parliament that butterflies should be muzzled, and "Our Representative" promptly calls upon "the well-known Lepidopterist" to ask what HE thinks about it.
From Not that it Matters by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
"I do not wonder that the old Greeks used the butterfly as an emblem of the soul," commented the Lepidopterist, well pleased with her appreciation of the insect.
From Bee and Butterfly A Tale of Two Cousins by Madison, Lucy Foster
Traps.—The method of “sugaring,” so important to the Lepidopterist, is by far less favorable for collecting Coleoptera.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.
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