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ephemerids

ephemerids is the plural of ephemerid.

Meaning of ephemerid

Noun

ephemerid (plural ephemerids)

  1. Any in the family Ephemeridae of mayflies.
    • I had flown in a helicopter with Javits and Bobby Kennedy. I was skirring around New York like an ephemerid, my jacket lined with jolly psychedelic green.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 51

Questions about ephemerids

What is ephemerids the plural of?
Ephemerids is the plural of ephemerid.

Words near ephemerids in the dictionary

  1. ephemerellids
  2. ephemeric
  3. ephemerid
  4. ephemeride
  5. ephemerides
  6. ephemerids
  7. ephemeris
  8. ephemeris time
  9. ephemerises
  10. ephemerist
  11. ephemerists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ephemerids (page history and authors); ephemerid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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