Meaning of pyralis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A species of firefly, Photinus pyralis
2. A moth of the genus Pyralis.

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.”

“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.”

“When a pyralis female sees a flash⟳ of the appropriate characteristics, she waits 2 seconds and then emits her own⟳ half-second flash⟳.”

“This once happened in a hemp field destroyed by a pyralis, described by me in a special memoir.”

“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.”

“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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