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pyralid


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pyralid  \Pyr"a*lid\,  n.  [L.  pyralis,  -idis,  a  kind  of  winged 
  insect.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  Any  moth  of  the  family  {Pyralid[ae]}.  The  species  are 
  numerous  and  mostly  small  but  some  of  them  are  very 
  injurious,  as  the  bee  moth,  meal  moth,  hop  moth,  and  clover 
  moth. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pyralid 
  n  :  usually  tropical  slender-bodied  long-legged  moth  whose 
  larvae  are  crop  pests  [syn:  {pyralid  moth}] 




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