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Mayfly Moderate

Mayfly has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days

2

Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
ephemerid
Rhyming Words
fly oxfly refly mcfly befly barfly liefly naifly owlfly selfly wolfly apefly gadfly waffly bobfly dayfly ruffly medfly chefly botfly
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