ephemera
n . 生命极短促之物,蜉蝣
生命极短促之物,蜉蝣
ephemera n 1 :
something transitory ;
lasting a day May \
May \,
n . [
F .
Mai ,
L .
Maius ;
so named in honor of the goddess Maia (
Gr .
Mai ^
a ),
daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury by Jupiter .]
1 .
The fifth month of the year ,
containing thirty -
one days .
--
Chaucer .
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2 .
The early part or springtime of life .
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His May of youth ,
and bloom of lustihood . --
Shak .
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3 . (
Bot .)
The flowers of the hawthorn ; --
so called from their time of blossoming ;
also ,
the hawthorn .
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The palm and may make country houses gay . --
Nash .
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Plumes that mocked the may . --
Tennyson .
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4 .
The merrymaking of May Day . --
Tennyson .
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{
Italian may } (
Bot .),
a shrubby species of {
Spiraea }
({
Spiraea hypericifolia })
with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches .
{
May apple } (
Bot .),
the fruit of an American plant ({
Podophyllum peltatum }).
Also ,
the plant itself (
popularly called {
mandrake }),
which has two lobed leaves ,
and bears a single egg -
shaped fruit at the forking .
The root and leaves ,
used in medicine ,
are powerfully drastic .
{
May beetle }, {
May bug } (
Zool .),
any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May .
They belong to {
Melolontha },
and allied genera .
Called also {
June beetle }.
{
May Day },
the first day of May ; --
celebrated in the rustic parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a garland ,
and by dancing about a May pole .
{
May dew },
the morning dew of the first day of May ,
to which magical properties were attributed .
{
May flower } (
Bot .),
a plant that flowers in May ;
also ,
its blossom .
See {
Mayflower },
in the vocabulary .
{
May fly } (
Zool .),
any species of {
Ephemera },
and allied genera ; --
so called because the mature flies of many species appear in May .
See {
Ephemeral fly },
under {
Ephemeral }.
{
May game },
any May -
day sport .
{
May lady },
the queen or lady of May ,
in old May games .
{
May lily } (
Bot .),
the lily of the valley ({
Convallaria majalis }).
{
May pole }.
See {
Maypole }
in the Vocabulary .
{
May queen },
a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day .
{
May thorn },
the hawthorn .
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Ephemera \
E *
phem "
e *
ra \,
n . [
NL .,
fr .
Gr . ?
a day fly ,
fr . ?
daily ,
lasting but a day ; ?
over ?
day .]
1 . (
Med .)
A fever of one day '
s continuance only .
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2 . (
Zo ["
o ]
l .)
A genus of insects including the day flies ,
or ephemeral flies .
See {
Ephemeral fly },
under {
Ephemeral }.
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Ephemeron \
E *
phem "
e *
ron \,
n .;
pl . {
Ephemera }. [
NL .
See {
Ephemera }.] (
Zo ["
o ]
l .)
One of the ephemeral flies .
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Ephemera - Wikipedia One definition for ephemera is "the minor transient documents of everyday life" [3][4] Ephemera are often paper-based, printed items, including menus, ticket stubs, newspapers, postcards, posters, sheet music, stickers, and greeting cards However, since the 1990s, the term has been used to refer to digital artefacts or texts [5]
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EPHEMERA definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary Ephemera is things people collect such as old postcards, posters, and bus tickets, which were only intended to last a short time when they were produced
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