nymph

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.