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Definition of Order Ephemeroptera
1. Noun. Mayflies.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Ephemerid, Ephemeropteran, Ephemeridae, Family Ephemeridae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Ephemeroptera
Literary usage of Order Ephemeroptera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Economic Entomology for the Farmer and the Fruit Grower, and for Use as a by John Bernhard Smith (1906)
"Order EPHEMEROPTERA. This order includes what are known as "May-" or "day- flies,"
the names indicating either the time at which they first appear ..."
2. Effects of the Eruptions of Mount St. Helens on Physical, Chemical, and by Douglas B. Lee (1998)
"The largest percentage change was noted in the order Ephemeroptera, which in 1978
was 53.6 percent of the sample population. ..."
3. Favorite Flies and Their Histories by Mary Orvis Marbury (1892)
"... of the order Ephemeroptera, Sir John Lubbock has described twenty- one stages
of existence. With the caddis-flies, belonging to the order Trichoptera, ..."
4. Favorite Flies and Their Histories by Mary Orvis Marbury (1892)
"... of the order Ephemeroptera, Sir John Lubbock has described twenty- one stages
of existence. With the caddis-flies, belonging to the order Trichoptera, ..."
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