Ephemera

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A plural of ephemeron.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Plural form of ephemeron.
  • n. transitory things
  • n. publications that are designed to be short-lived
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A fever of one day's continuance only.
  • n. A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A fever which lasts but a day or a very short period.
  • n. [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, the typical genus of May-flies or day-flies of the family Ephemeridæ, having three long caudal filaments.
  • n. A May-fly, day-fly, or shad-fly; an ephemerid. See Ephemeridæ and May-fly.
  • n. Anything very short-lived.
  • n. Plural of ephemeron.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. something transitory; lasting a day
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    ephemeral   
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    ephemerae    ephemeral   
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