- mayfly as a noun:
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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.
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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