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Mayfly

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Noun

1. dayfly, mayfly, shadfly

slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mayfly

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noun plural -flies
1. Also called: dayfly
any insect of the order Ephemeroptera (or Ephemerida). The short-lived adults, found near water, have long tail appendages and large transparent wings; the larvae are aquatic
2. angling
an artificial fly resembling this

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Mayfly

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nounWord forms: plural ˈmayˌflies
any of an order (Ephemeroptera) of delicate, soft-bodied insects with gauzy wings held vertically when at rest: in the adult stage, it lives only hours or a few days, but the aquatic larval stage may last for several years

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Mayfly

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n.
Any of various delicate, winged insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop from aquatic nymphs and in the adult stage live no longer than a few days and do not feed.

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