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Mayfly

noun

1 mayfly

Slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days.

synonyms: dayfly, shadfly.

Dutch: eendagsvlieg
Polish: jętka, efemeryda

Roget 111: transience, transientness etc. adj.; evanescence, impermanence, fugacity [Chem], caducity, mortality, span; nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly; ... show more


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