genus pyrausta

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   moths whose larvae are corn borers

   SynonymsPyrausta

   Broaderarthropod genus

   Part ofPyralidae

Questions about genus pyrausta

What does genus pyrausta mean?

genus pyrausta means "moths whose larvae are corn borers".

What is another word for genus pyrausta?

Close synonyms include Pyrausta. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus pyrausta a common word?

genus pyrausta is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.