Instead of studying lepidoptery, Won Kim was forced to attend business college in Seoul. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Matador’s Hotel] Reference
The first hardcover edition came out, what, six, seven years ago, the jacket featuring the title (The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov) in blockish paper-cut-out letters, lepidoptery-pinned to a pale blue background. From Wordnik.com. [Gods | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference
Is the hobby really called "lepidoptery"?. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for a word...] Reference
The butterfly pieces flippantly liken art collecting to amateur lepidoptery. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
One of his varieties of knowledge, observable by any reader of his novels, is lepidoptery -- the science of butterflies. From Wordnik.com. [When Winter Comes to Main Street] Reference
United States, and his hobby led to him becoming curator of lepidoptery at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The random access memory tidings is paralytic to lepidoptery a culvert to carolina waterwheel snuffer, snaffle dragger, mist to pompon, and binaurally. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Peter Dizikes’s recent essay on C. P. Snow’s “Two Cultures,” in which Snow, some 50 years ago, lamented the Western schism between literature and science, put me immediately in mind of Vladimir Nabokov’s lepidoptery. From Wordnik.com. [Two of Nabokov’s Many Cultures - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
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