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nymph

/nimf/US // nɪmf //UK // (nɪmf) //

女巫,仙女,虮子,女神

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.