Definition of "lepidopterist" [lep•i•dop•ter•ist]

• Someone who studies lepidoptery; someone who studies butterflies and moths. (noun)

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• "If a birdwatcher can have a 'big year,' why not a lepidopterist?."
• "He is Robert Michael Pyle, lepidopterist, naturalist, conservationist and writer who knows the taxonomy and biogeographical distribution of the nation 's pale ales and lagers as well as he knows North America' s butterfly fauna."
• "But there was one subject around which our different lives came together and found deep connection: the author and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov."