Noun: pyralis
| Singular | pyralis |
| Plural | pyralises; pyralides |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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If you have an opportunity to experiment with Photinus pyralis, try the following: Start a male toward you by answering him properly, that is, as a pyralis female would answer him, once or twice. [1968, The Conservationist - Volumes 23-24, page 169:]
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When a pyralis female sees a flash of the appropriate characteristics, she waits 2 seconds and then emits her own half-second flash. [1986, Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson, Deception: Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit, →ISBN, page 114:]
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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:]
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At first there was a belief that the caterpillar was that of a pyralis like that which caused such great loss to beet growers in southern Russia, Roumania and North America. [1907, Sugar - Volume 9, page 333:]
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What would have been the opinion of the public, seeing e.g. a butterfly and a pyralis placed in the same genus ? [1962, Memorie della Società entomologica italiana:]
Nouns inflected like pyralis
pyralis,
adenitis,
hemiclitoris,
bronchitis,
vasculitis,
Adonis,
endodermis,
keratitis,
glottis,
otosalpingitis,
hepatitis,
teleiochrysalis,
chlamys,
sinusitis,
caryopteris,
pancreatitis,
salpingitis,
aegis,
vulvovaginitis,
rhinosinusitis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology