"pyralis" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1922, E.-L. Bouvier, The Psychic Life of Insects, page 9:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, The Conservationist - Volumes 23-24, page 169:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson, Deception: Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit, →ISBN, page 114:",
          "text": "When a pyralis female sees a flash of the appropriate characteristics, she waits 2 seconds and then emits her own half-second flash.",
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        }
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        "A species of firefly, Photinus pyralis"
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          "name": "Elateroid beetles",
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          "name": "Pyraloid moths",
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          "ref": "1850, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist - Volume 10, page 277:",
          "text": "This once happened in a hemp field destroyed by a pyralis, described by me in a special memoir.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Sugar - Volume 9, page 333:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1962, Memorie della Società entomologica italiana:",
          "text": "What would have been the opinion of the public, seeing e.g. a butterfly and a pyralis placed in the same genus ?",
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        "A moth of the genus Pyralis."
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          "ref": "1922, E.-L. Bouvier, The Psychic Life of Insects, page 9:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, The Conservationist - Volumes 23-24, page 169:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson, Deception: Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit, →ISBN, page 114:",
          "text": "When a pyralis female sees a flash of the appropriate characteristics, she waits 2 seconds and then emits her own half-second flash.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Sugar - Volume 9, page 333:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "text": "What would have been the opinion of the public, seeing e.g. a butterfly and a pyralis placed in the same genus ?",
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