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n. Greek & Roman Mythology Any of numerous minor deities represented as beautiful maidens inhabiting and sometimes personifying features of nature such as trees, waters, and mountains.

n. A girl, especially a beautiful one.

n. The larval form of certain insects, such as silverfish and grasshoppers, usually resembling the adult form but smaller and lacking fully developed wings. Also called nympha.

n. The larva of certain insects.

n. Any minor female deity associated with water, forests, grotto, etc.

n. A young girl, especially one who inspires lustful feelings.

n. A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.

n. A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel.

n. The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.

n. Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.

n. In mythology, one of a numerous class of inferior divinities, imagined as beautiful maidens, eternally young, who were considered as tutelary spirits of certain localities and objects, or of certain races and families, and whose existence depended upon that of the things with which they were identified.

n. Hence, a young and attractive woman; a maiden; a damsel.

n. In entomology, the third stage of an insect's transformation, intervening between the larva and the imago; a pupa; a chrysalis; a nympha. See cuts under Termes and Nysius.

n. In insects which undergo an incomplete metamorphosis, the stage in which the wing-pads appear.

n. a voluptuously beautiful young woman

n. (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden

n. a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)

"As he carefully selects a nymph from the rim of his hat, he listens to the stream rushing by him, calling him to wade through her waters and cast his line."

woman    adult female    larva   

naiad   

maiden    damsel    chrysalis    nymphid    nymphlet    dryad    oread    oceaned    naiad    maenad   

lymph   

maiden    goddess    angel    damsel    sprite    princess    fairy    faun    witch    saint