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Example sentences for: entomology

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The result of his well-meant and highly-appreciated gesture is that there is now in the deathless literature of entomology a robber fly species named Proctacanthus rodecki James, which is roughly translated “Rodeck's thorny anus.”
And many of my students in introductory linguistics courses confuse etymology (word origins) with entomology (the study of insects).
Vladimir Nabokov's taxonomies of Latin American butterflies, long disparaged as armchair entomology, turn out to be top-drawer science, according to a recent article in the New York Times . In the 1940s, the émigré novelist held a part-time job at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and published the first attempted classification of an obscure group of blue butterflies known as Polyommatini . For years, Nabokov's study attracted more attention from literary critics than from scientists.