What does entomologist mean?
Word: Entomologist
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Entomologist means a scientist who studies insects: how they live, grow and behave, and how they affect plants, animals and people.
How do you spell entomologist?
Syllables: en - to - mol - o - gist
Tricky part: It starts with ent, not ant or int, even though ants are among the insects an entomologist studies.
Watch out for: antomologist, entemologist, intomologist
Memory tip: ENTer the world of insects: the word opens with the same three letters as enter, e-n-t.
Entomologist in a sentence
Example 1: The entomologist showed us how to tell a moth from a butterfly by its feelers.
Example 2: My cousin wants to be an entomologist because she loves watching beetles in the garden.
Example 3: An entomologist from the agricultural university came to check the pests in the rice fields.
Fun Fact
Entomologists have named roughly a million kinds of insect so far, and they believe many more are still waiting to be described.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tsigolmenoto
a) entomology
b) toxicologist
c) etymologist
d) entomologist
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d) entomologist. Etymologist has a y and no n, entomology ends in y, and toxicologist brings in an x and a c; only entomologist uses these twelve letters.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) cardiologist
b) pharmacist
c) geologist
d) entomoligist
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d) entomoligist. Like geologist, it ends in ologist; the vowel before gist must be o.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
entomollogist
a) t
b) l
c) o
d) g
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b) l. One l is enough, as in biologist.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
ent_m_logist
a) u, o
b) a, o
c) o, a
d) o, o
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d) o, o. Say it slowly, en-to-mol-o-gist: an o sits on each side of the m.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. An entomologist would be the best person to ask ____.
a) how birds build nests
b) why fireflies glow
c) why volcanoes erupt
d) how old a fossil fish is
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b) why fireflies glow
2. Which of these might an entomologist keep in a collection?
a) pressed flowers and leaves
b) rare rocks and crystals
c) pinned beetles and moths
d) old postage stamps
Show answer
c) pinned beetles and moths
