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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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One of the ephemeral flies.
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Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.
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Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days.
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Ephemeral.
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A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
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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.
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Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral.
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Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
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One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist.
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One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets.
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of Ephemeron
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Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.
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of Ephemeris
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Ephemeral.
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A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature.
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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.
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One of the ephemeral flies.
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Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.
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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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