EPHEMERA
\ɪfˈɛməɹə], \ɪfˈɛməɹə], \ɪ_f_ˈɛ_m_ə_ɹ_ə]\
Definitions of EPHEMERA
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- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
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A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
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By Noah Webster.
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Transient everyday items, usually printed on paper, that are produced for a specific limited use and then often thrown away. Similar material of the past has acquired literary or historical significance. The word comes from the Greek ephemeros, lasting only a day. (From Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing, 2d ed & The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983)
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By William R. Warner
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A fly that lives one day only: the Mayfly, a genus of short-lived insects: a fever of one day's continuance only.
By Daniel Lyons
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That which continues a day. This epithet is given to diseases, and particularly to fevers, which last only a day.- (F.). The term prolonged ephemera is sometimes used for fevers, which cease after two or three days' duration.
By Robley Dunglison
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