The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree
(Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.
A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral....
