myrmecologistn.
/ˌməːmᵻˈkɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌmərməˈkɑlədʒəst/ Zoology.
An expert in or student of myrmecology.
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aurelian1778
lepidopterist1826
coleopterist1852
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1879 Amer. Naturalist 13 486 In July of last summer the Rev. Dr. McCook, of Philadelphia, the distinguished myrmecologist.., visited my colony of slave-making ants.
1891 Science 3 Apr. 186/2 Dr. Forel obtained some [sc. desert crickets]..in a way characteristic of a myrmecologist. He secured a bag of ants..and, setting them loose before the burrow, they entered it, and soon ousted the occupant.
1932 Sci. Monthly May 397/2 The myrmecologist will be led naturally to supplement his field observations with observations in the laboratory.
1972 Sci. Amer. Sept. 193/1 Forty-five years ago the American myrmecologist William Morton Wheeler wrote a volume with a very similar title, the fruit of his lifetime study of ants.
1994 Nature 28 July 262/3 (caption) All myrmecologists..will surely want to own a copy of Barry Bolton's Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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