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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

pyralis

-idis

, a kind of winged insect.]

(Zool.)

Any moth of the family

Pyralidæ

. 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.

pyralid ‎(plural pyralids)