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mayfly
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Mayflies also known as shadflies or fishflies in Canada, are aquatic insects belonging to the order Ephemeroptera . This order is part of an ancient group of insects termed the Palaeoptera , which also contains dragonflies and damselflies . Over 3,000 species ...
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n. slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days [syn: dayfly , shadfly ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In lakes, crustaceans, molluscs, leeches and mayflies dwindle, although predators remain more numerous, feeding on alternative prey. ▪ The loch has some splendid fish and, in late June and early July, a wonderful mayfly hatch. ...
Usage examples of mayfly.
The tiller went hard over and the cockleshell darted around like a mayfly.
Mosquitoes are actually flies, but dragonflies, butterflies, damselflies, fireflies, mayflies and stoneflies are not.
WiseMothers and not the transitory and quickly forgotten struggles, as brief as those of the mayflies, of mortal creatures.
Gwalchmai of nothing so much as a shim-mering swarm of midges or mayflies, which always keeps a rough group shape, inside of which each individual is always aimlessly hi motion.
Besides, Mayfly is at least twenty miles away from the other houses that were burglarized.
The mayflies weren't out yet, but there were a few caddises winging around.
As word spread they began to come up, from lower down the mountain: cockroaches by the ten thousand, bees, hundreds of varieties of beetle, flies, gnats, midges, mosquitoes, dragonflies, damselflies, crane flies, mayflies, yellow-and-black-striped wasps, orange-and-black-striped hornets.
The shuttle Mayfly lying next to the Moth had been sectioned off into offices for Ongola, Fulmar, and Nabhi, with a half-dozen comm lines so that Ongola could handle other commitments while on hand at the shuttle.
First for a Mayfly: you may make his body with greenish-coloured crewel, or willowish colour.
The mayfly yammerings of Probsher mystics mattered no more or less than the desperate moves of the Terragens Council, against the grinding forces of an overwhelming universe.