Definition of Pyrausta

1. Noun. Moths whose larvae are corn borers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrausta

Pylodictus
Pylodictus olivaris
Pylos
Pynchon
Pynchonesque
Pyongyang
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyralidae
Pyralididae
Pyralis
Pyramid
Pyramids
Pyrausta
Pyrausta nubilalis
Pyrenean
Pyrenees
Pyrenees daisy
Pyrenomycetes
Pyrethrum
Pyrex
Pyridium
Pyrocephalus
Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus
Pyrola americana
Pyrola elliptica
Pyrola minor
Pyrola rotundifolia

Literary usage of Pyrausta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Larvæ of the British Butterflies and Moths by William Buckler (1901)
"The imagos emerged from the 2nd to the 8th of August. (George T. Porritt, October 6th, 1884; EMM, November, 1884, XXI, 124.) pyrausta ..."

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