mayfly

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What is hard though, is finding out which aggregator/intermediary/record company collected the payments for mayfly Mayhem's plays.

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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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noun

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

noun

(attributive, figurative) Characterized by a short duration; short-lived.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for mayfly.

noun

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

noun

(attributive, figurative) Characterized by a short duration; short-lived.

Example sentences

What is hard though, is finding out which aggregator/intermediary/record company collected the payments for mayfly Mayhem's plays.

If legs are for walking, mayfly do only have four legs.

News delivers a brief stimulus; commentary even briefer: the spasmodic twitch of the mousing fingertip merely signals the assent (or dissent) of the mayfly mind.

- Gun rights devotees would flip out and kill the bill deader than a mayfly on the Moon.

Many companies have the lifespan of a mayfly.

That's one possible solution to the Fermi paradox -- nobody's contacted us yet because they don't feel like trying to have a conversation with something that has the life span of a mayfly.

He insists that specifically a mayfly, which does walk on only four of its legs, only ever using the other two to grip during mating, only has four legs, while discussing the locomotion of walking.