Pyralis
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 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."
- 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."
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More examples"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."