Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mayfly.
- noun A caddisfly.
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- noun
mayfly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
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Remind me to tell you about Bookangel's shadfly obsession from a a few years ago.
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