nymph

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   in classical mythology, a female spirit associated with a natural place such as a spring, forest, or mountain

   The poem imagines a nymph guarding the clear woodland pool.

2. 2
   noun

   the immature stage of an insect that undergoes incomplete metamorphosis and resembles a smaller adult

   The dragonfly nymph lived underwater before emerging as an adult.

Common collocations

• water nymph Noun + noun

From Middle English nimphe, through Old French and Latin nympha, from Greek nymphē, 'bride, young woman, or minor goddess.' Natural-history writers later applied the mythological name to an immature insect, especially one associated with water.

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