| 单词 | ephemeropteran |
| 释义 | ephemeropteran in British English (iːˌfɛməˈrɒptərən) noun 1. another word for ephemerid adjective 2. of or relating to the Ephemeroptera ephemeropteran in American English (iˌfeməˈrɑptərən) adjective 1. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Ephemeroptera, comprising the mayflies noun 2. ephemerid Word origin [‹ NL Ephemeropter(a) (equiv. to Gk ephe᷄mer(on) ephemeron + -o- -o- + -ptera, neut. pl. of -pteros -pterous) + -an]-an is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Roman; urban) or persons (Augustan), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (American; Chicagoan), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc., in adjectives formed from various kinds of noun bases (Episcopalian; pedestrian; Puritan; Republican) and membership in zoological taxa (acanthocephalan; crustacean). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” (Elizabethan; Jacobean) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; historian; theologian)Examples of 'ephemeropteran' in a sentence |
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