lepidopterist
- n an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths
- As professional lepidopterist, Nabokov has claimed the discovery of several butterflies since he came to America, notably of Neonympha Dorothea, a creature named for a friend who .
- For the rest of his life, with the pure, cold, scientific passion of a lepidopterist, he was true to butterflies.
- Besides being a scholar, critic, translator, chess player, lepidopterist and eccentric, he is one of those relatively rare writers who in the midst of their career have been .