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ephemera


noun – A fever which lasts but a day or a very short period.

noun – [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, the typical genus of May-flies or day-flies of the family Ephemeridæ, having three long caudal filaments.

noun – A May-fly, day-fly, or shad-fly; an ephemerid. See Ephemeridæ and May-fly.

noun – Anything very short-lived.

noun – Plural of ephemeron.

noun – A fever of one day's continuance only.

noun – A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.

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