NYMPH
\nˈɪmf], \nˈɪmf], \n_ˈɪ_m_f]\
Definitions of NYMPH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
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(classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden; "the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water"
By Princeton University
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a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
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(classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden; "the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.
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The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.
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Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; - called also naiad.
By Oddity Software
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A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.
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The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.
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Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; - called also naiad.
By Noah Webster.
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The immature stage in the life cycle of those orders of insects characterized by gradual metamorphosis, in which the young resemble the imago in general form of body, including compound eyes and external wings; also the 8-legged stage of mites and ticks that follows the first moult.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A maiden: (myth.) one of the beautiful goddesses who inhabited every region of the earth and waters.
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NYMPH-LIKE.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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