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EPHEMEROPTERAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ephemeropteran mean?
• EPHEMEROPTERAN (noun)
The noun EPHEMEROPTERAN has 1 sense:
1. short-lived insect
Familiarity information: EPHEMEROPTERAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Short-lived insect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
ephemerid; ephemeropteran
Hypernyms ("ephemeropteran" is a kind of...):
insect (small air-breathing arthropod)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ephemeropteran"):
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 ("ephemeropteran" is a member of...):
Ephemerida; Ephemeroptera; order Ephemerida; order Ephemeroptera (mayflies)
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