entomologist

From entomology +‎ -ist.

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entomologist (plural entomologists)

1. A scientist who studies insects.

   The noted entomologist Charles W. Woodworth suggested the use of Drosophila melanogaster for genetic studies.

   • 1989, The Philippine Lumberman, volume 35:

     DENR entomologists recall that beetle infestation of the agohos is similar to another which killed thousands of pine trees in Benguet in 1981.

   • 2012, Michael Lanza, Before They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks, page 104:

     Colorado stood at the brink of an outbreak that another Forest Service entomologist would dub “Beetlegeddon.”

   • 2022 April 20, Megan Marples, “Taylor Swift inspired an entomologist to name a new millipede species after the megastar”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     An entomologist named a new species of millipede Nannaria swiftae after pop star Taylor Swift.

   • 2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     The team, made up of entomologists and electrical engineers, attached AprilTags, a kind of QR code that is smaller than the nail on your little finger, to the bees using glue.

• insectologer
• insectologist

• entomologic
• entomological
• entomologically
• entomology

Borrowed from French entomologiste.

entomologist m (plural entomologiști)

1. entomologist