EPHEMERID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ephemerid mean? 

• EPHEMERID (noun)
  The noun EPHEMERID has 1 sense:

1. short-lived insect

  Familiarity information: EPHEMERID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPHEMERID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Short-lived insect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

ephemerid; ephemeropteran

Hypernyms ("ephemerid" is a kind of...):

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ephemerid"):

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 ("ephemerid" is a member of...):

Ephemerida; Ephemeroptera; order Ephemerida; order Ephemeroptera (mayflies)