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A specialist in the largest order of insects.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Must be an entomologist -- coleopterist preferred.
  • But a brother coleopterist like yourself is always a welcome guest, and
  • Lepidoptera; as if a coleopterist -- a scarabeeist -- cared for such things.
  • John inherited his father's versatility, but like his father, and in much greater degree, specialized on coleopters, and became, as is well known, the most distinguished...
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