Pyralid: alternatives and connections

Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.

A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects.

Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very d…

A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea-beetle…

Any lizard of the family Geckonidae. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, ellipt…

One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family Geometridae; -- so called because their larvae (called loopers, measuring w…

Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at…

Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical pa…

Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian spec…

Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia…

Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, wit…

Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridae. They are mostly natives of Centr…

The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpo…

Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy pota…

Any species of Melilotus, a genus of leguminous herbs having a vanillalike odor; sweet clover; hart's clover. The blue melilot (Melilo…

A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes…

A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where ea…