FAMILY PYRALIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Pyralidae mean? 

• FAMILY PYRALIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY PYRALIDAE has 1 sense:

1. bee moths; corn borers; flour moths

  Familiarity information: FAMILY PYRALIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PYRALIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bee moths; corn borers; flour moths

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Pyralidae; family Pyralididae; Pyralidae; Pyralididae

Hypernyms ("family Pyralidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Pyralidae"):

pyralid; pyralid moth (usually tropical slender-bodied long-legged moth whose larvae are crop pests)

genus Pyralis; Pyralis (type genus of the Pyralidae)

Galleria; genus Galleria (a genus of Pyralidae)

genus Pyrausta; Pyrausta (moths whose larvae are corn borers)

Anagasta; genus Anagasta (moth whose larvae are flour moths)

Ephestia; genus Ephestia (small moths whose larvae spin silken tunnels and feed on stored food products)

Cadra; genus Cadra (a genus of Pyralidae)

corn borer; Pyrausta nubilalis (larva of the European corn borer moth; a serious pest of maize)

Holonyms ("family Pyralidae" is a member of...):

Lepidoptera; order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)