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noun
Any insect of the order Ephemeroptera, the mayflies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
short-lived insect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ephemerid
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: insect
Narrower terms: Plectophera, mayfly, dayfly, shadfly
History
From translingual Ephemeroptera + -an.
