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• APHIS
  A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies. Note: Besides the true males and females, there is a race of wingless asexual individuals which have the power
• APHIS LION
  The larva of the lacewinged flies , which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of the ladybugs .
• CRYPTOGRAPHIST
  See CRYPTOGRAPHER
• PHONOGRAPHIST
  Phonographer.
• CEROGRAPHIST
  One who practices cerography.
• MONOGRAPHIST
  One who writes a monograph.
• EPIGRAPHIST
  A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.
• CHIROGRAPHIST
  1. A chirographer; a writer or engrosser. 2. One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.
• ORGANOGRAPHIST
  One versed in organography.
• PALEOGRAPHIST
  One versed in paleography; a paleographer.
• SPHENOGRAPHIST
  A sphenographer.
• SCAPHISM
  An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.
• METALLOGRAPHIST
  One who writes on the subject of metals.
• BIBLIOTAPH; BIBLIOTAPHIST
  One who hides away books, as in a tomb. Crabb.
• CALLIGRAPHIST
  A calligrapher
• AUTOBIOGRAPHIST
  One who writes his own life; an autobiographer.
• STENOGRAPHIST
  A stenographer.
• CHALCOGRAPHER; CHALCOGRAPHIST
  An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.
• GRAPHISCOPE
  See GRAPHOSCOPE
• LICHENOGRAPHIST
  One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.
• PHOTOGRAPHIST
  A photographer.