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nymphnymph /nɪmf/ noun [countable]   nymphOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French nimphe, from Latin, from Greek nymphe ‘bride, nymph’ - At the moment Paris was living with a lovely nymph named Oenone.
- Hood ornaments of streamlined nymphs bearing tiny globes stood as bookends to his Architectural Digests.
- I was by then realizing something that had eluded me before, about the fleeing nymphs.
- Melanie would be a nymph crowned with daisies once again; he saw her as once she had seen herself.
- Roguish fauns and naked nymphs peeked down at Billy from festooned cornices.
- The nymphs, or first larval stages of mayflies, are also adapted to very particular conditions.
- The blue-winged olive nymph lives among weeds such as water crowfoot.
- The same was true for mealworm larvae, a species of butterfly, mosquito larvae, and milkweed-bug nymphs.
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