ephyra

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  1. Pl. ephyræ (-rē). One of the so-called Medusæ bifidæ; an attached or free-swimming lobate discoidal medusoid, resulting from transverse fission, by agamogenetic multiplication, in the scyphistoma stage, of the actinula of a discophorous hydrozoan. By the development of the ephyræ, and before these become detached, the young discophoran passes into the strobila stage. The word was used as a generic name before the character of the objects had been ascertained. Bee scyphistoma, strobila, and hydra tuba, under hydra.
  2. [capitalized] plural Same as Ephyromedusæ.
  3. [capitalized] A genus of geometrid moths. Ephyra punctaria is popularly known as the maiden's-blush; E. orbicularia is the dingy mocha; E. pendularia, the birch-mocha. Duponchel, 1829.
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  1. New Latin, from Greek (Εφύρα, a seanymph, eponym of (Εφύρα, Ephyra, another name of Corinth.
 

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