Word Finder - nymph

definition

(Greek, Roman) Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grotto, wind, etc.

definition

A young girl, especially one who is attractive, beautiful or graceful.

synonyms

• lolita
• nymphet
• nymphette

definition

The larva of certain insects.

synonyms

• instar
• naiad

definition

Any of various butterflies of the family Nymphalidae.

He had the dream about the bronze haired nymph again.

Nemertes was a sea nymph, daughter of Nereus and Doris..

He was the child of a nymph by the god of the wind.

He had that damn dream about the bronze haired nymph again.

Even when he spoke of replacing her with a nymph.

It would have been folly to explain to him that he was the first man to affect her so dynamically, but she didn't want to leave him with the impression that she was a nymph either.

Last year his best Czech nymph was made from orange rabbit with black thorax or with a goldhead.

I tackled my ten foot three piece five weight rod with a heavy caddis nymph.

As a regular nymph fisherman I have a box of just nymph fisherman I have a box of just nymphs and boxes for dry flies.

By chance he finally glimpses the elusive creature - a beautiful sea nymph, who has crossed into our world from her own.

Could you tell a dragonfly nymph from a great diving beetle?

Collect found objects on the way eg twigs, stones, leaves, and make our own wood nymph out of clay.

Her motions are often more expressive than any words, and she is as graceful as a nymph.

A gold headed hare lug nymph winkled out a couple of trout and it was glorious.

By the eponymous nymph Aricia, Virbius had a son of the same name, who fought on the side of the Rutulian Turnus against Aeneas.

Apollo carried off from Mount Pelion the nymph Cyrene, daughter or granddaughter of the river-god Peneus, and conveyed her to Libya, where she gave birth to Aristaeus.

The nymph of a thrips-insect (Thysanoptera) is sluggish, its legs and wings being sheathed by a delicate membrane, while the nymph of the male scaleinsect rests enclosed beneath a waxy covering.

Another class of nocturnal demons are the incubi and succubi, who are said to consort with human beings in their sleep; in the Antilles these were the ghosts of the dead; in New Zealand likewise ancestral deities formed liaisons with females; in the Samoan Islands the inferior gods were regarded as the fathers of children otherwise unaccounted for; the Hindus have rites prescribed by which a companion nymph may be secured.

These gradually become larger, and when so the creature may be said to have entered its "nymph" stage; but there is no condition analogous to the pupa-stage of insects with complete metamorphoses.

Three miles to the N.W., at the foot of the Monte Leano, was the shrine of the nymph Feronia, where the canal following the Via Appia through the marshes ended.

In Hesiod (Theogony, 1013) he is the son of Odysseus and Circe, and ruler of the Tyrsenians; in Virgil, the son of Faunus and the nymph Marica, a national genealogy being substituted for the Hesiodic, which probably originated from a Greek source.

The first two books contain the allegory proper - the marriage of Mercury to a nymph named Philologia.

On his proving unfaithful, the Great Mother slays the nymph with whom he has sinned, whereupon in madness he mutilates himself as a penalty.

After encountering many adventures in all parts of the unknown seas, among the lotuseaters and the Cyclopes, in the isles of Aeolus and Circe and the perils of Scylla and Charybdis, among the Laestrygones, and even in the world of the dead, having lost all his ships and companions, he barely escaped with his life to the island of Calypso, where he was detained eight years, an unwilling lover of the beautiful nymph.

The popular legends of Sicily also inspired his muse; he was the first to introduce the shepherd Daphnis who came to a miserable end after he had proved faithless to the nymph who loved him.

Now, in cases of danger being threatened to their own ascendancy by such practices, the gods as a rule proceed to employ the usually successful expedient of despatching some lovely nymph to lure the saintly men back to worldly pleasures.

She is sometimes represented as the goat which suckled the infant-god in a cave in Crete, sometimes as a nymph of uncertain parentage (daughter of Oceanus, Haemonius, Olen, Melisseus), who brought him up on the milk of a goat.

From the foregoing epitome which applies to many species, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus for example, it is evident that every individual tick has to find a host on three occasions, namely, as larva, nymph and adult.

On the other hand, the Artemis of Arcadia, who is confused with the nymph Callisto, who, again, is said to have become a she-bear, and later a star, and the Brauronian Artemis, whose maiden ministers danced a bear-dance, are goddesses whose legend seems unnatural, .and is felt to need explanation.

According to some authorities the nymph Castalia was the daughter of Achelous; according to others the water of the spring was derived from the Boeotian Cephissus.

They entered into deep conversation, discussing the pending bid item—a statue of a nymph waving a snake.

Just then, everyone clapped as the nymph was delivered to a joyful Paulette.

The elusive creature was a beautiful sea nymph who had crossed into our world from her own.

The nymph, you see, was a maiden, and like Artemis, she preferred to remain chaste.

Yes, that little dimple could be a trout rising; that flash underwater may be a trout taking a nymph.

The heaviest nymph goes in the middle with a lighter fly on both the point and the top dropper.

The fishing is for brown and some rainbow trout using up-stream dry fly and nymph.

The hatched nymph looks more or less like a smaller version of the adult.

Never mind that your family lives nine hundred miles from an ocean--and perhaps she doesn't exactly look like the golden-haired nymph in the catalog-this doesn't matter.

They entered into deep conversation, discussing the pending bid item—a statue of a nymph waving a snake.

The child was at first handed over to the care of the Hours, or the nymph Melissa and the centaur Cheiron.

The probable origin of the story is the part traditionally taken in the foundation of Syracuse by the Iamidae of Olympia, who identified the spring Arethusa with their own river Alpheus, and the nymph with Artemis Alpheiaia, who was worshipped at Ortygia.

According to the legend, Callisto, an Arcadian nymph, became by Zeus the mother of Arcas, the eponymous hero of the Arcadians.

After many years the larva is transformed into the pupa or nymph, which is distinguishable principally by the shortness of its antennae and the presence of wing pads.

In some cicads the mature nymph ceases to feed and remains quiescent within a pillar-shaped earthen chamber.

Moreover, in many insects with imperfect metamorphosis the change from larva or (as the later stage of the larva is called in these cases) nymph to imago is about as great as the corresponding change in the Holometabola, as the student will recognize if he recalls the histories of Ephemeridae, Odonata and male Coccidae.

The sub-imago of the Ephemeroptera suggests that a moult, after the wings had become functional, was at one time general among the Hexapoda, and that the resting nymph of the Thysanoptera or the pupa of the Endopterygota represents a formerly active stage in the life-history.

According to Callimachus (Hymn to Diana, 190), she was a nymph, the daughter of Zeus and Carme, and a favourite companion of Artemis.

He derived his inspiration from his wife, the nymph Egeria, whom he used to meet by night in her sacred grove.

His rejection of the love of the nymph Echo drew upon him the vengeance of the gods.