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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fugacious \Fu*ga"cious\, a. [L. fugax, fugacis, from fugere: cf.
     F. fugace. See {Fugitive}.]
     1. Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a
        short time; volatile.
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              Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and
              of so uncertain purchase.             --Jer. Taylor.
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     2. (Biol.) Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied
        particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as
        compared with the life of the individual.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fugacious
       adj : enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of
             childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient
             beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal";
             "fugacious blossoms" [syn: {ephemeral}, {passing}, {short-lived},
              {transient}, {transitory}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "fugacious":
     brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying,
     ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting,
     fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugitive, impermanent,
     impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, momentary, mortal,
     mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable,
     short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive,
     transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile
  
  

















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