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lepidopterology|ˌlɛpɪdɒptəˈrɒlədʒɪ|
[f. Lepidoptera n. pl. + -ology.]
The branch of entomology which deals with the study of Lepidoptera. Hence ˌlepidopteˈrologist; ˌlepidopteroˈlogical a.
1899Proc. 4th Internat. Congress Zool. 1898 232 An important phenomenon that my studies in Lepidopterology have revealed. Ibid., England and English-speaking America possess the greatest number of Lepidopterologists. Ibid. 337 Matters other than Lepidopterological must be settled by a general committee of Zoologists. 1921(title) Bulletin of the Hill Museum: a magazine of lepidopterology. 1967V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (ed. 2) vi. 123 Since the middle of the century, Continental lepidopterology had been..a simple and stable affair. Ibid. 129 Among the very few lepidopterological images in English poetry, my favorite is Browning's. |