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BUGOLOGIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bugologist mean?
• BUGOLOGIST (noun)
The noun BUGOLOGIST has 1 sense:
1. a zoologist who studies insects
Familiarity information: BUGOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A zoologist who studies insects
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bug-hunter; bugologist; entomologist
Hypernyms ("bugologist" is a kind of...):
animal scientist; zoologist (a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bugologist"):
butterfly collector; lepidopterist; lepidopterologist (an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths)
Instance hyponyms:
E. O. Wilson; Edward Osborne Wilson; Wilson (United States entomologist who has generalized from social insects to other animals including humans (born in 1929))
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