| 单词 | mayfly |
| 释义 | mayfly (once / 57938 pages) n WORD FAMILY mayfly: mayflies USAGE EXAMPLESStrolling the River Avon, his goal that day was to catch trout using an imitation of the “pale watery,” a bulge-eyed, mosquito-sized mayfly. Wall Street Journal(Oct 14, 2016) Workmen in Poland have been shovelling hundreds of thousands of dead mayflies off a bridge in south-eastern Poland. BBC(Aug 02, 2016) That’s not bad compared with some adult female mayflies, which live for under five minutes—just long enough to mate and lay eggs. National Geographic(Jul 23, 2016) n slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days Syn|Hyper dayfly, shadfly ephemerid, ephemeropteran short-lived insect |
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