1) Asterope 2) Atlantides 3) Dryad 4) Fairy 5) Hesperides 6) Houri 7) Hyades 8) Oread 9) Pleiades 10) Salmacis 11) Sterope 12) Sylph
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1) Attendant of Apollo 2) Attendant of Artemis 3) Callisto or Calypso 4) Calypso or callisto 5) Calypso or daphne 6) Classical element 7) Daphne or Calypso 8) Dragonfly larva 9) Dryad 10) Dryad or naiad 11) Eurydice 12) Female deity 13) French word used in English 14) Graceful maiden 15) Graeco-roman deity
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A general term used to describe the subsurface forms of aquatic insects prior to emergence. Also used as the name of flies imitating these insect forms.
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An underwater stage of aquatic insect. It is an important source for all varieties of warmwater and coldwater fish.
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• (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.) A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters. • (n.) The pupa of an i...
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(from the article `fishing`) ...a fish, usually trout, as possible. Artificial flies came into use early, however, and live flies are now only used for dapping, in the periods ... ...school of anglers, particularly in England, refuses to fish with anything but the dry fly. The second type of fly is the wet fly, designed to ... [2 rel...
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a stage or series of size changes between egg and adult in the life cycle of insects that go through incomplete or simple metamorphosis.
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1. A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters. 'Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ?' (Milton) ... 2. Hence: A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel. 'Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered.' (Shak) ... 3. <zoology> The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis. ... 4. <zo...
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(nimf) a developmental stage in certain arthropods (such as ticks), coming between the larval form and the adult; it resembles an adult but does not have fully developed wings or genitalia.
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Nymph noun [ Latin
nympha nymph, bride, young woman, Greek ...: confer French
nymphe . Confer
Nuptial .]
1. (Class. Myth.) A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters. « Where were ye,
nymphs , when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head ...
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an aquatic insect during its immature stage of development while underneath the surface of the water back to top
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An underwater stage of aquatic insect. It is an important source for all varieties of warmwater and coldwater fish.
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Divine female nature spirits who inhabit certain natural sites.
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A nymph was a higher being than a human, but not immortal like a god. They were respected in mythology.
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a minor female goddess who dwells in forests, rivers, mountains, who are often attendants of major goddesses.
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noun a voluptuously beautiful young woman
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noun a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
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(entomology) In entomology, the immature form of insects that do not have a pupal stage; for example, grasshoppers and dragonflies. Nymphs generally resemble the adult (unlike larvae), but do not have fully formed reproductive organs or wings
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(mythology) In Greek mythology, a guardian spirit of nature. Dryads or hamadryads guarded trees; naiads, springs and pools; oreads, hills and rocks; oceanids, the open sea; and Nereids, the Aegean
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an immature insect after emerging from the egg. This term usually refers to insects in which there is incomplete metamorphosis (see hemimetabolous).
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an immature insect in incomplete metamorphosis; it differs from the adult in size and in its incompletely developed wings and genitalia
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A young stage of insects and ticks that have incompletely developed sex organs.
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An underwater stage of aquatic insect. It is an important source for all varieties of warmwater and coldwater fish.
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An immature stage of an organism which largely resembles the adult stage, save for some minor differences. For example, cockroach nymphs can be differentiated from the adults by the fact that the nymphs do not have wings.
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A female, human-like spirit bound to a particular place in nature.
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