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Water nymph   /wˈɔtər nɪmf/   Listen
Water nymph

noun
1.
Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water.  Synonym: naiad.
2.
A water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water; of temperate and tropical regions.  Synonyms: fragrant water lily, Nymphaea odorata, pond lily.
3.
(Greek mythology) any nymph of the water.
4.
A fairy that inhabits water.  Synonyms: water spirit, water sprite.





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"Water nymph" Quotes from Famous Books



... is in the Tate National Gallery; "Leap Frog," in the National Gallery of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. Other pictures of hers are "A Water Nymph," "The Bathers," etc., which are in private galleries. "Leap Frog" was in the Academy ...
— Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. • Clara Erskine Clement
... heare no tydings of my Love? In neither desart, grove, nor shadie wood Nor obscure thicket where my foote hath trod? But every plough-man and rude shepheard swain Doth still reply unto my greater paine? Some Satyre, then, or Godesse of this place, Some water Nymph vouchsafed me so much grace As by some view, some signe, or other sho, I may haue knowledge if ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... of beautiful lyric poems, Pushkin left several dramatic fragments: "The Rusalka" or "Water Nymph," on which Dargomyzhsky founded a beautiful opera, "The Stone Guest,"[11] "The Miserly Knight," and chief of all, and like "Evgeny Onyegin," epoch-making in its line, the historical dramatic fragment "Boris Godunoff." This founded a school in Russian dramatic writing. It is ...
— A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections • Isabel Florence Hapgood


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