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collembologist

collembologist noun: one who studies springtails (hexapods of the subclass Collembola).

Noun

collembologist (plural collembologists)

  1. One who studies springtails (hexapods of the subclass Collembola).
    • The capture is apparently lower in the tropics, at least from what I have experienced as a collembologist.2013, Eduardo H Rapoport, Areography: Geographical Strategies of Species, page 179

Forms of collembologist

pluralcollembologists

Questions about collembologist

What does collembologist mean?
Collembologist means one who studies springtails (hexapods of the subclass Collembola).
What part of speech is collembologist?
Collembologist is a noun.
What is the plural of collembologist?
The plural of collembologist is collembologists.

Words near collembologist in the dictionary

  1. collembolans
  2. collembolas
  3. collembolid
  4. collembolids
  5. collembological
  6. collembologist
  7. collembologists
  8. collembology
  9. Collen
  10. collenchyma
  11. collenchymas

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