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pyralides

pyralides is the plural of pyralis.

Meaning of pyralis

Noun

pyralis (plural pyralises or pyralides)

  1. A species of firefly, Photinus pyralis
    • As Loeb has shown by many experiments, the phototropic phenomena of animals differ not at all from those of plants, and they carry no more psychism in a polyp or in a pyralis than in a geranium or in a volvox.1922, E.-L. Bouvier, The Psychic Life of Insects, page 9
  2. A moth of the genus Pyralis.
    • This once happened in a hemp field destroyed by a pyralis, described by me in a special memoir.1850, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist - Volume 10, page 277

Questions about pyralides

What is pyralides the plural of?
Pyralides is the plural of pyralis.

Words near pyralides in the dictionary

  1. pyracy
  2. pyral
  3. pyralid
  4. pyralid moth
  5. pyralid moths
  6. pyralides
  7. pyralids
  8. pyralis
  9. pyralises
  10. pyraloid
  11. pyraloids

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