nymph

1. Myth a spirit of nature envisaged as a beautiful maiden

2. the larva of insects such as the dragonfly and mayfly. It resembles the adult, apart from having underdeveloped wings and reproductive organs, and develops into the adult without a pupal stage

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

nymph

[nimf]

(invertebrate zoology)

Any immature larval stage of various hemimetabolic insects.

Nymph

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Atlantides

(Pleiades) seven daughters of Atlas by Pleione. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 37]

Camenae

fountain nymphs; identified with Greek Muses. [Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 49]

dryads

divine maidens of the woods. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 108]

hamadryads

wood nymphs. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 113]

Hyades

seven daughters of Atlas, entrusted with the care of the infant Dionysus. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 134]

limoniads

nymphs of meadows and flowers. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 152]

naiads

divine maidens of lakes, streams, and fountains. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 256]

Napaeae

nymphs of woodland glens and vales. [Rom. Myth.: Howe, 174]

Nereids

sea nymphs of the Mediterranean. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 257]

Oceanids

sea nymphs of the great oceans. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 263]

oreads

divine maidens of the mountains. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 270]

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Nymph

a stage in the development of arthropods with incomplete transformation, that is, without clearly expressed metamorphosis. The nymph stage characterizes mites, all apterygote insects, and such winged insects as roaches, earwigs, orthopterans, termites, and hemipterans. The corresponding stage in stone flies, mayflies, dragonflies, and damselflies. is called the naiad. The nymph resembles the adult form but has underdeveloped sexual apparatus and, in winged insects, underdeveloped wings. After molting many times the nymph becomes an imago, a fully mature individual.

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