nymph 的定义
- one of a numerous class of lesser deities of mythology, conceived of as beautiful maidens inhabiting the sea, rivers, woods, trees, mountains, meadows, etc., and frequently mentioned as attending a superior deity.
- a beautiful or graceful young woman.
- a maiden.
- the young of an insect that undergoes incomplete metamorphosis.
nymph 近义词
female nature spirit
更多nymph例句
- The bugs have very little Massospora in them when they’re in their nymph stage, one of the times when they’re ideal for eating, Lovett said.
- This recipe calls for tenerals, though you could try it with nymphs.
- Six to 10 weeks later, the eggs hatch into tiny nymphs, which fall to the earth and tunnel underground.
- At that point, the nymphs will surface again, climb out and promptly ascend the nearest tall object.
- Six to eight weeks later, the eggs will develop into nymphs, which will then fall back to earth and dig themselves underground.
- First, a naiad is a water nymph in Greek myth—a woman who looked over the waterways.
- Taurus draws on the myth of Io, the nymph who was turned into a snow-white cow.
- The nymph-muse is a part that Portman was in some ways born for.
- I have consulted God and demigod; the nymph of the river, and what I far more admire and trust, my blue-eyed Minerva.
- It runs thus:—Saradvat, by the magnitude of his penances, frightened Indra, who sent a celestial nymph to tempt him.
- But I'm going to stay on and see my nymph safely through her dark days.
- Epimenides of Cnossos was born of the loves of a mortal and a nymph.
- But in the times before Shakespeare the name was more poetically said to be derived from the nymph Phyllis.