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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, adjective
1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.
2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. ''Ephemeral popularity.'' --V. Knox.
Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy. --Sir J. Stephen.
{Ephemeral fly} (Zo["o]l.), one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus {Ephemera} and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larv[ae] are aquatic; -- called also {day fly} and {May fly}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, noun Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ephemeral
adjective: enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" [syn: {passing}, {short-lived}, {transient}, {transitory}, {fugacious}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "ephemeral": brief, brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying, episodic, evanescent, evergreen, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, half-hardy, hardy, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perennial, perishable, short, short-lived, subject to death, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile
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