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A prefix, meaning upon, beside, among, on the outside, above, over. It becomes ep-before a vowel, as in epoch, and eph-before a Greek aspirate, as in ephemeral.
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n.
Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.
n.
One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets.
a.
Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.
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An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.
a.
Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.
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of Ephemeron
a.
Ephemeral.
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Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.
n.
Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days.
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A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature.
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of Ephemeris
n.
One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist.
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One of the ephemeral flies.
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Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral.
n.
One of the ephemeral flies.
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A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
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Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
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Ephemeral.
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A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac."
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