EPHEMERON (ephemera)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: ephemera   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does ephemeron mean? 

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

1. anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPHEMERON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

ephemeral; ephemeron

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

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

 Context examples 

And you're responsible for it, what of your man, who is always the erected, the vitalized inorganic, the latest of the ephemera, the creature of temperature strutting his little space on the thermometer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Well, what do you, the latest of the ephemera, want with fame?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Oh, yes, 'Man, the latest of the ephemera.'

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She had made love the strongest thing in him, increased its power a myriad per cent with her gift of imagination, and sent him forth into the ephemera to thrill and melt and mate.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)