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ephemeral

adjective brevis, brief, caducous, continuing for a short time, deciduous, disappearing, elusive, enduring only a very short time, ephemerous, evanescent, existing for a short time, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, hurried, impermanent, lasting a very short time, meteoric, meteorical, momentary, mortal, nondurable, not lasting, passing, perishable, short, short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient, transitory, unenduring, unius diei, vanishing, volatile

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In the southwestern USA, monsoon thunderstorms can produce overland flow that results in spectacular flash floods in ephemeral stream channels (Lytle, 2000).

Input of terrestrial invertebrates to streams during monsoon-related flash floods in the Southwestern United States

The study was concentrated at Doctors Park, located about 10 km north of Milwaukee, because this beach had high concentrations of black sand in 1998 that was concentrated near the ephemeral stream that flows to the lake across the beach.

Distribution of Magnetic sands on Lake Michigan beaches near Milwaukee, Wisconsin

An ephemeral stream or wash usually is present at D.

Botany section. (Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 111th Meeting)

As a result, previously unprotected ephemeral streams and headwaters that are prone to destruction by mining and excavating practices could come under federal protection through permits.