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English noun: mayfly

1. mayfly (animal) slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days


Synonymsdayfly, shadfly


Broader (hypernym)ephemerid, ephemeropteran


Member meronymEphemeridae, family Ephemeridae









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