mayfly

Meanings

Plural: mayflies, mayfly

Noun

• slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
• Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults.
• Characterized by a short duration; short-lived.

Synonyms

dayfly, ephemera, ephemerid, shadfly

Related Words

archaeognathan, beetle, blattodean, booklice, butterflies and moth, caddis flies, cockroach and termite, coleopteran, damselflies and dragonflies, dermapteran, dipteran, earwig, embiopteran, ephemeropteran, flea, flies, grylloblattodean, hatch, hemipteran, hymenopteran, ice crawler, jumping bristletail, lepidopteran, mantis, mantodean, mantophasmid, mayflies, mecopteran, megalopteran, neuropteran, odonatan, orthopteran, phasmatodean, plecopteran, psocodean, raphidiopteran, scorpionflies, silverfish, siphonapteran, snakeflies, stick insect, stoneflies, strepsipteran, thrips, thysanopteran, trichopteran, true bug, webspinner, zorapteran, zygentoman