Definition of Order Ephemeroptera

1. Noun. Mayflies.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Ephemeroptera

order Diapensiales
order Dicranales
order Dictyoptera
order Dinocerata
order Dinoflagellata
order Dinornithiformes
order Diptera
order Discocephali
order Ebenales
order Edentata
order Embiodea
order Embioptera
order Endomycetales
order Entomophthorales
order Ephemerida
order Ephemeroptera (current term)
order Equisetales
order Ericales
order Erysiphales
order Eubacteriales
order Eubryales
order Euphausiacea
order Eurotiales
order Eurypterida
order Exocycloida
order Fagales
order Falconiformes
order Filicales
order Foraminifera
order Fucales

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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