noun
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Meanings
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a scientist who specializes in the study of insects
The entomologist identified the beetle by the pattern on its wing cases.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
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· a scientist who specializes...
insect scientistinsect specialist
Word family
Forms
entomologicalentomologists
Etymology
Formed from entomology + -ist. Entomology comes from Ancient Greek entomon 'insect', literally 'cut into or segmented', from en- 'in' + temnein 'to cut', plus -logia 'study'.