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EPHEMERID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Short-lived insect
Synonyms:
ephemerid; ephemeropteran
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ephemerid" is a kind of...):
insect (small air-breathing arthropod)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ephemerid"):
Plectophera (in some former classifications: name for the Ephemeroptera)
dayfly; mayfly; shadfly (slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days)
Holonyms ("ephemerid" is a member of...):
Ephemerida; Ephemeroptera; order Ephemerida; order Ephemeroptera (mayflies)
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