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beetle-sticker

beetle-sticker noun: an entomologist.

Noun

beetle-sticker (plural beetle-stickers)

  1. (dated, slang) An entomologist.
    • Entomologists all over England are in despair at the total failure of the insect crop, and have taken to botanising, angling, and other bad habits, in default of means for pursuing their natural avocation as beetle-stickers.1884, Grant Allen, The Evolutionist at Large, page 105

Forms of beetle-sticker

pluralbeetle-stickers

Questions about beetle-sticker

What does beetle-sticker mean?
Beetle-sticker means an entomologist.
What part of speech is beetle-sticker?
Beetle-sticker is a noun.
What is the plural of beetle-sticker?
The plural of beetle-sticker is beetle-stickers.

Words near beetle-sticker in the dictionary

  1. beetle-crusher
  2. beetle-crushers
  3. beetle-headed
  4. beetle-squasher
  5. beetle-squashers
  6. beetle-sticker
  7. beetle-stickers
  8. beetlebrain
  9. beetlebrained
  10. beetlebrains
  11. beetled

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