lepidopterous
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The vibrant blue hues of morpho butterflies’ wings have long captivated not only lepidopterists but also chemists.
From Scientific American • Nov. 13, 2020
This was an untypically chirpy remark from the doyen of literary lepidopterists, and not quite in the mood of Guardian journalist Patrick Barkham when he set out on his extraordinary odyssey.
From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2010
He was the toast of feature writers, the darling of lepidopterists.
From Time Magazine Archive
A plague on divine lepidopterists who pursue souls as though they were butterflies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi’s moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
