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Ephemeroptera — noun mayflies • Syn: ↑order Ephemeroptera, ↑Ephemerida, ↑order Ephemerida • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Insecta, ↑class Insecta, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
order Ephemerida — noun mayflies • Syn: ↑Ephemeroptera, ↑order Ephemeroptera, ↑Ephemerida • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Insecta, ↑class Insecta, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Ephemeroptera — Ephem·er·op·tera (e fem″ər opґtər ə) [Gr. ephemeros short lived + pteron wing] the mayflies, an order of elongated insects with net veined paired wings, and two or three caudal filiform appendages; the adults have only… … Medical dictionary
ephemeroptera — n. order of insects (about 2,500 species in 23 families) that grow up in fresh water and live a very short adult life (only a few hours and some more typically a day or two); mayflies … English contemporary dictionary
animal order — noun the order of animals • Hypernyms: ↑order • Hyponyms: ↑Eubacteriales, ↑order Eubacteriales, ↑Pseudomonadales, ↑order Pseudomonadales, ↑Rickettsiales, ↑order … Useful english dictionary
Mayfly — For other uses, see Mayfly (disambiguation). Mayfly Temporal range: Late Carboniferous Recent[1] … Wikipedia
insect — insectival /in sek tuy veuhl/, adj. /in sekt/, n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two… … Universalium
mayfly — /may fluy /, n., pl. mayflies. 1. Also called shadfly. any insect of the order Ephemeroptera, having delicate, membranous wings with the front pair much larger than the rear and having an aquatic larval stage and a terrestrial adult stage usually … Universalium
Rhithrogena germanica — Female R. germanica subimago Scientific classification Kingdom … Wikipedia
Insect wing — Original veins and wing posture of a dragonfly. Hoverflies hovering to mate … Wikipedia
