- nymph - (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden; "the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water"
--1 is a kind of Greco-Roman deity, Graeco-Roman deity
--1 has particulars:Echo; Hesperides, Atlantides; Hyades; Oread; Pleiades; Sterope, Asterope; water nymph; Daphne; dryad, wood nymph; Salmacis - nymph - a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
--2 is a kind of larva
- nymph, houri - a voluptuously beautiful young woman
--3 is a kind of woman, adult female
- nymph - a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)