Usually means: Short-lived aquatic insects, ephemeral existence.
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  1. mayflies: Merriam-Webster
  2. mayflies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mayflies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mayflies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Mayflies, mayflies: Wordnik
  6. mayflies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. mayflies: Wiktionary
  8. mayflies: Dictionary.com
  9. Mayflies: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Mayflies: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Mayflies: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  a novel by Kevin O'Donnell Jr. published in 1979.
▸ noun:  a two-part British television drama series starring Martin Compston and Tony Curran, adapted by Andrea Gibb from Andrew O'Hagan's 2020 novel of the same name, and directed by Peter Mackie Burns.


Opposite:
perennial, long-lived, enduring

Types:
Ephemeroptera, more...



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Opposite:
perennial, long-lived, enduring

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