Here is a poem I found in the OED:
Ephemera, n.
1. An insect that (in its imago or winged form) lives only for a day. In modern entomology the name of a genus of psudo-neuropterous insects belonging to the Ephemeridae (Day-flies, May-flies).
But I think it should read like this:
Ephemera, n.
1.
An insect that
(in its' imago or winged form)
lives only for a day.
In modern entomology
the name of a genus of psudo-neuropterous insects
belonging to
the Ephemeradae
(Day-flies, May-flies).
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