pyralid n 1: usually tropical slender-bodied long-legged moth whose larvae are crop pests [syn: {pyralid}, {pyralid moth}]
Pyralid \Pyr"a*lid\, n. [L. pyralis, -idis, a kind of winged insect.] (Zool.) Any moth of the family {Pyralid[ae]}. The species are numerous and mostly small, but some of them are very injurious, as the bee moth, meal moth, hop moth, and clover moth. [1913 Webster]