PYRALID


Meaning of PYRALID in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pī-ˈra-ləd ]

noun

Etymology: ultimately from Latin pyralis, fly fabled as living in fire, from Greek, from pyr fire

Date: 1870

: any of a very large heterogeneous family (Pyralidae) of mostly small slender long-legged moths

• pyralid adjective

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.