noun
Meaning 1
An entomologist who specializes in the order Diptera (true flies).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1857, Henry Tibbats Stainton (editor), Review of Francis Walker, Insecta Britannica - Diptera, Volume 3, in The Entomologist's Annual, page 170, It must be very gratifying to Mr. Walker to hear the dictum of the great Dipterist of Posen, Professor Loew, that the arrangement “adopted by Mr. Walker is one of the best, or even the best, systematic arrangement of the Diptera that has yet been proposed."
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dipterologist
Antonyms: none provided