apiologistn.
/eɪpɪˈɒlədʒɪst/ rare.
A scientific student of bees.
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bee-herd1483
honeyman1510
bee-ward?1518
bee-master1658
hiver1707
apiologist18..
apiarist1816
bee-keeper1817
bee-woman1833
apiarian1858
bee-mistress1859
bee-man1861
apiculturist1883
18.. Emerson in Sanborn Thoreau (1882) 251 What Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, ‘that either he had told the bees things, or the bees had told him.’
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