'Pyralid' definitions:
Definition of 'pyralid'
(from WordNet)
noun
Usually tropical slender-bodied long-legged moth whose larvae are crop pests [syn: pyralid, pyralid moth]
Definition of 'Pyralid'
From: GCIDE
- Pyralid \Pyr"a*lid\, n. [L. pyralis, -idis, a kind of winged insect.] (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]