noun. Any of numerous minor deities represented as beautiful maidens inhabiting and sometimes personifying features of nature such as trees, waters, and mountains.

noun. A sexually mature and attractive young woman.

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noun. The immature form of an insect, such as a grasshopper, that does not pass through a pupal stage during metamorphosis. Nymphs resemble adults but are smaller and lack fully developed wings.

noun. The eight-legged immature form of certain arachnids, such as ticks and mites.

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

noun. 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.

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

noun. 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.

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

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

noun. The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.

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

noun. The larva of certain insects.

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

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

noun. a voluptuously beautiful young woman

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

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

"The term nymphæ was first applied in the modern sense, according to Bergh, in 1599, by Pinæus, mainly from the influence of these structures on the urinary stream, and he dilated in his _De Virginitate_ on the suitability of the term to designate so poetic"

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