rare. [f. L. api-s bee + -(O)LOGIST.] A scientific student of bees.
1862. Emerson, in Sanborn, Thoreau (1882), 251. What Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, ‘that either he had told the bees things, or the bees had told him.’
1905. Even. Standard, 14 Sept., 1/1, heading. Apiologists at the Crystal Palace.
