"mayfly" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mayflies [plural]
Etymology: From May + fly. Compare Saterland Frisian Moaifljooge (“blowfly”). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|May|fly}} May + fly, {{cog|stq|Moaifljooge|t=blowfly}} Saterland Frisian Moaifljooge (“blowfly”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} mayfly (plural mayflies)
  1. Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults. Categories (lifeform): Mayflies Synonyms: shadfly, dayfly, ephemerid Translations (insect of order Ephemeroptera): еднодневка (ednodnevka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), efímera [feminine] (Catalan), 蜉蝣 (fau⁴ jau⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 蜉蝣 (fúyóu) (Chinese Mandarin), jepice [feminine] (Czech), eendagsvlieg [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), haft [neuter] (Dutch), efemero (Esperanto), døgnfluga [feminine] (Faroese), samdøgursfluga [feminine] (Faroese), päivänkorento (Finnish), éphémère [masculine] (French), Eintagsfliege (German), Ephemeride [feminine] (German), בַּרְיוֹם (baryóm) [masculine] (Hebrew), tiszavirág (Hungarian), kérész (Hungarian), efemera [feminine] (Italian), effimera [feminine] (Italian), 蜉蝣 (alt: かげろう, kagerō, ふゆう, fuyū) (Japanese), 하루살이 (harusari) (Korean), piriwai (Maori), aniłtʼánii bitseeʼ hólóní (Navajo), moûque d'un jour [feminine] (Norman), døgnflue [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), døgnfluge [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), døgerfluge [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), efemèra [feminine] (Occitan), manna del peis [feminine] (Occitan), miimiins (Ottawa), یکروزه (yek-ruze) (Persian), jętka [feminine] (Polish), efêmera [feminine] (Portuguese), efemérida [feminine] (Portuguese), подёнка (podjónka) [feminine] (Russian), jednodnevka [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), vodeni cvijet [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), vodencvet [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), vodeni cvet [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), podenka [feminine] (Slovak), efímera [feminine] (Spanish), cachipolla [feminine] (Spanish), dagslända [common-gender] (Swedish), แมลงชีปะขาว (má-lɛɛng-chii-bpà-kǎao) (Thai), thiêu thân (Vietnamese), phù du (Vietnamese)
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  2. (attributive, figurative) Characterized by a short duration; short-lived. Tags: attributive, figuratively
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: hatch

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      "word": "یکروزه"
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      "sense": "insect of order Ephemeroptera",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "efêmera"
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      "sense": "insect of order Ephemeroptera",
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      "word": "подёнка"
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      "code": "sh",
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "jednodnevka"
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      "word": "vodeni cvijet"
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        "feminine"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "insect of order Ephemeroptera",
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      "word": "cachipolla"
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      "code": "th",
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      "roman": "má-lɛɛng-chii-bpà-kǎao",
      "sense": "insect of order Ephemeroptera",
      "word": "แมลงชีปะขาว"
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "insect of order Ephemeroptera",
      "word": "thiêu thân"
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      "code": "vi",
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      "sense": "insect of order Ephemeroptera",
      "word": "phù du"
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  "word": "mayfly"
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Vietnamese: 'phù du', originally 'phù du'",
  "path": [
    "mayfly"
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  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "mayfly",
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