Definition of "lepidoptery" [lepidoptery]

• The branch of entomology that deals with lepidopterans. (noun)

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• "Vladimir Nabokov was totally consumed by two passions: literature and lepidoptery."
• "Instead of studying lepidoptery, Won Kim was forced to attend business college in Seoul."
• "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."