Lexic.us

Definition of Butterfly collector

1. Noun. An entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths.

Literary usage of Butterfly collector

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Book of Modern Marvels edited by Waldemar Kaempffert (1917)
"To judge by the quantities he secured by this method the region must have been a veritable Eldorado for the butterfly collector. ..."

2. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes ; a Book of by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1907)
"For handbooks for a butterfly collector see the “Reading” section. Collecting Flowers A quieter pastime, but a very interesting one, and also one that, ..."

3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1903)
"This very useful little book is intended for the evolutionary prototype of the British butterfly collector of former days, who annually invades the " Alps," ..."

4. Natal: A History and Description of the Colony : Including Its Natural by Henry Brooks (1876)
"... other pursuers than it does to the butterfly collector who has the help of observation and experience to enable him to circumvent such ..."

5. Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals: A Naturalist's Sojourn Among the by Antwerp Edgar Pratt (1906)
"If it be pinched from above — as every butterfly collector knows—the operator's finger-marks would show on the wings and betray slovenly handling. ..."

6. Theme-building by Charles Henshaw Ward (1920)
"(1) There are many difficulties that confront an amateur butterfly- collector, for collecting butterflies does not merely consist in catching the insect—in ..."

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