hymenopterologist
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hymenopterology + -ist.
Noun
[edit]hymenopterologist (plural hymenopterologists)
- One who studies the Hymenoptera.
- Synonym: hymenopterist
- 1900, The Canadian Entomologist, volume 32, page 153:
- Many other cases could be cited, but these, I think, will do to show the difficulty of the study of the Pompilidae, and how deficient our generic definitions must be when our most able hymenopterologists are so easily led astray by superficial resemblances.