fugacious

Fugacious - lasting for a short time: soon falling away from the parent plant.

On some species, however, they are small, inconspicuous, and fugacious (soon falling).

The cortex at first papillate, however this is a fugacious or transitory phase.

It is covered with fibrils from the veil, which forms one or two incomplete, oblique, and usually fugacious zones.

The sori are enclosed (sometimes tightly) by reflexed laminar margins, also with membranous, often fugacious true indusia.

The margin is rolled inward, and viscid, cuticle which is often slightly spotted, smooth and with small fugacious viscid concolorous flocci.

Their voices, too, are heard as a fugacious part in the dirge which is ever played along the shore for those mariners who have been lost in the deep since first it was created.

Because the ring is fugacious (short-lived) it is not always present; it is thought that fruit bodies that develop in dry conditions are less likely to have a ring.

When presented with oil and gas cases, early common law jurists were somewhat reluctant to recognize a corporeal possessory interest in substances they considered to be fugacious or "wild and migratory," and therefore subject to loss by drainage.