| NOUN | person | nymph | (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden |
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| animal | nymph | a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly) | |
| person | nymph, houri | a voluptuously beautiful young woman |
| Sounds | nih'mf | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | lymph | |
| Meaning | (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water" | |
| Category | classical mythology | The system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together |
| Narrower | Daphne | (Greek mythology) a nymph who was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the amorous Apollo |
| Echo | (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained | |
| Hesperides, Atlantides | (Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded / guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera | |
| Hyades | (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades | |
| Oread | (Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs | |
| Pleiades | (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades | |
| Salmacis | nymph who merged with Hermaphroditus to form one body | |
| Sterope, Asterope | (Greek mythology) one of the 7 Pleiades | |
| dryad, wood nymph | A deity or nymph of the woods | |
| water nymph | (Greek mythology) any nymph of the water | |
| Broader | Greco-Roman deity, Graeco-Roman deity | A deity of classical mythology |
| Spanish | ninfa | |
| Catalan | nimfa | |
| Meaning | A larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly). | |
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| Broader | larva | The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose |
| Spanish | ninfa | |
| Catalan | nimfa | |
| Meaning | A voluptuously beautiful young woman. | |
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| Synonym | houri | |
| Broader | woman, adult female | An adult female person (as opposed to a man) |
| Spanish | huri, hurí, ninfa | |
| Catalan | hurí, nimfa | |
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