Mayfly

Definition: Mayfly

Mayfly

Noun

1. Slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days.

Synonyms: Mayfly

Synonyms: dayfly (n), shadfly (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Mayfly

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Transientness	Noun: transience, transientness; Adjective: evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span; nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly; spurt; flash in the pan; temporary arrangement, interregnum.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Mayfly

English words defined with "mayfly": nymph. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mayfly": Concurrent Scheme. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mayfly

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Mayfly and the Frog (1966)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mayfly

Domain	Title
Books	Day of the Mayfly (Amazing Books, No 6) (reference) Instant Mayfly Identification Guide (reference) Matching Mayflies: Everything You Need to Know to Match Any Mayfly You'll Ever Encounter (reference) Sex & the single mayfly (reference) The Mayfly (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Hooked On Fly Tying, HRH1 Mayfly Life Cycle with Rene Harrop (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Mayfly (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mayfly

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Usage Frequency: Mayfly

"Mayfly" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mayfly" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	18	82,615

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mayfly

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
mayfly	125
mayfly picture	12
mayfly nymph	11
cycle life mayfly	7
mayfly identification	5
insect mayfly	5
mayfly larva	4
festival mayfly	3
mayfly hatch	3
mayfly photo	3
giant mayfly michigan	3
hexagenia mayfly	2
mayfly pattern	2
elusive mayfly	2
mayfly rig	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Mayfly

Language		Translations for "mayfly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mizë maji. (various references)

Bulgarian		еднодневка (day fly, ephemera), изкуствена муха (coachman, dry fly, hackle). (various references)

German		eintagsfliege (day fly, dayfly). (various references)

Italian		efemera. (various references)

Manx		quaillag Voaldyn (troutfly), midje. (various references)

Pig Latin		ayflymay

Portuguese		hepática (liverwurst). (various references)

Romanian		muşcã efemerã. (various references)

Russian		поденка (day fly, day-fly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vodeni cvet. (various references)

Spanish		efímera (ephemera), cachipolla. (various references)

Swedish		dagslända (day fly). (various references)

Thai		แมลงเม่า. (various references)

Turkish		mayıs sineği, su sineği. (various references)

Ukranian		веснянка (freckle, heatspot, sunspot). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Mayfly

Misspellings
	"Mayfly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Macfoy, Maffey, Malyali, maylay. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mayfly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-l-m-y-y"
	-1 letter: flamy.
	-2 letters: amyl, flam, flay.
	-3 letters: fay, fly, lam, lay, may, yam, yay.
	-4 letters: al, am, ay, fa, la, ma, my, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-l-m-y-y"
	+5 letters: flamboyancy.
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