Specialist or collector of butterflies and moths. Latin lepidoptera, order of scale-winged insects. Greek lepidos (scale) and pteron (wing).
Lep`i*dop"ter*ist, n. Zool.
One who studies the Lepidoptera.
© Webster 1913.
Lometa got here first: silly Webster had it hidden away under Lepidopterits.
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