Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

aphidologist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: aphi-dol-o-gist
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who studies aphidology.

Example Sentences

"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)."

Etymology

From aphidology + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: aphidology

Inflected Forms

aphidologists (plural)

Questions

What does aphidologist mean?: One who studies aphidology.
Where does aphidologist come from?: From aphidology + -ist.

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