entomologist

English

Etymology

From entomology +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst

Noun

entomologist (plural entomologists)

1. A scientist who studies insects.

   The noted entomologist Charles W. Woodworth suggested the use of Drosophila melanogaster for genetic studies.

   • 1989, The Philippine Lumberman, volume 35:

     DENR entomologists recall that beetle infestation of the agohos is similar to another which killed thousands of pine trees in Benguet in 1981.

   • 2012, Michael Lanza, Before They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks, page 104:

     Colorado stood at the brink of an outbreak that another Forest Service entomologist would dub “Beetlegeddon.”

   • 2022 April 20, Megan Marples, “Taylor Swift inspired an entomologist to name a new millipede species after the megastar”, in CNN‎:

     An entomologist named a new species of millipede Nannaria swiftae after pop star Taylor Swift.

   • 2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN‎:

     The team, made up of entomologists and electrical engineers, attached AprilTags, a kind of QR code that is smaller than the nail on your little finger, to the bees using glue.

Synonyms

• insectologer
• insectologist

Derived terms

• medical entomologist
• nonentomologist
• palaeoentomologist

Related terms

• entomologic
• entomological
• entomologically
• entomology

Translations

scientist who studies insects

Armenian: միջատաբան (hy) (miǰataban) Asturian: entomólogu m, entomóloga f Belarusian: энтамо́лаг m (entamólah) Catalan: entomòleg m Chinese: Mandarin: 昆蟲學家 / 昆虫学家 (zh) (kūnchóngxuéjiā) Czech: entomolog (cs) m Danish: entomolog c Dutch: entomoloog (nl) m, entomologe (nl) f, insectenkenner m Esperanto: entomologo, insektologo Finnish: hyönteistutkija French: entomologiste (fr) m or f Galician: entomólogo m, entomóloga f German: Entomologe (de) m, Entomologin (de) f, Insektenwissenschaftler m, Insektenwissenschaftlerin f Hungarian: entomológus (hu), rovartudós Irish: feithideolaí m Italian: entomologo (it) Japanese: 昆虫学者 (ja) (こんちゅうがくしゃ, konchūgakusha) Latvian: entomologs m, entomoloģe f Lithuanian: entomologas m Norwegian: Bokmål: entomolog (no) m Nynorsk: entomolog (nn) m Polish: entomolog (pl) m or f, entomolożka (pl) f, owadoznawca (pl) m, owadoznawczyni (pl) f Portuguese: entomologista (pt), entomólogo (pt) m Romanian: entomolog (ro) m, entomologist (ro) m Russian: энтомо́лог (ru) m (entomólog), инсекто́лог (ru) m (insektólog) Slovak: entomológ (sk) m, entomologička (sk) f Spanish: entomólogo (es) m, entomóloga f Swedish: entomolog (sv) c Tagalog: dalubkulisap Turkish: böcekbilimci (tr), entomolog, entomolojist (tr) Ukrainian: ентомо́лог m (entomóloh) Vietnamese: nhà côn trùng học Volapük: näsäkavan (vo)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French entomologiste.

Noun

entomologist m (plural entomologiști)

1. entomologist

Declension

Declension of entomologist

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	entomologist	entomologistul		entomologiști	entomologiștii
genitive-dative	entomologist	entomologistului		entomologiști	entomologiștilor
vocative	entomologistule			entomologiștilor