Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
ephemeral .
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Examples
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That's why plants like harbinger of spring and twinleaf are called ephemerals, Fleming explained: The blooms last barely a week.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011
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Rudyard Kipling, "prophet of blood and vulgarity, prince of ephemerals and idol of the unelect," — as a Chicago critic chortles, — is dead.
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This trait makes native spring ephemerals perfect for naturalizing lawns and landscapes.
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The bloodroot is always the most short lived among those early ephemerals, we get too hot too soon every year for them to last.
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The ephemerals are so lovely, but it was especially nice for me to see a well-behaved vinca, with much prettier blooms than the usual one and named for my home state, apparently.
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There are more little ephemerals to come, hope you like them too.
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Many of these native plants are spring ephemerals, which means they come and go effortlessly, leaving little trace of their existence.
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As the woodland wildflower area becomes more shady with the ever growing young maples and dogwoods to replace the gone but not forgotten red maple, click to find out more about this tree here-Ferngully, the spring ephemerals are gaining momentum.
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In fact it offers shade for some of the smaller ephemerals and never seems burnt by the direct sun either.
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We have a corner that is suppose to be a moss garden with a few small trees and ephemerals growing in it.
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