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aphidologist

aphidologist noun: one who studies aphidology.

Noun

aphidologist (plural aphidologists)

  1. One who studies aphidology.
    • Thus, for example, fossil Naibiidae were described by Shcherbakov (1990, 2007) as most ancient, four-winged scale insects, but the same group is considered to be aphids by some aphidologists (see, for example, Wojciechowski 1992).2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphidinea + Coccinea)”, in Comparative...

Forms of aphidologist

pluralaphidologists

Origin of aphidologist

From aphidology + -ist.

Questions about aphidologist

What does aphidologist mean?
Aphidologist means one who studies aphidology.
What part of speech is aphidologist?
Aphidologist is a noun.
What is the plural of aphidologist?
The plural of aphidologist is aphidologists.

Words near aphidologist in the dictionary

  1. aphidlion
  2. aphidlions
  3. aphidoid
  4. aphidoids
  5. aphidological
  6. aphidologist
  7. aphidologists
  8. aphidology
  9. aphidomorph
  10. aphidomorphs
  11. aphidophagous

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