nympha
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of nympha
1595–1605; < Latin nympha ( see nymph)
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
I observe the Magnolia, with large white wax-like flowers, somewhat resembling the giant nympha of Guiana.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
In one of his Latin epigrams occurs the celebrated line upon the miracle at Cana: Vidit et erubuit nympha pudica Deum: as englished by Dryden, The conscious water saw its Lord and blushed.
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Morgagni describes a supernumerary left nympha, and Petit is accredited with seeing a case which exhibited neither nymphae, clitoris, nor urinary meatus.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
She suffered a wound on the internal surface of the left nympha 1 1/2 inch long and 1/2 inch deep.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
These insects, during the stage of egg, larva, and nympha, live in water, and afterwards, as developed insects, in the air.
From Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians by Halliday G. Sutherland
Resumed our journey down the river at 8.5 a.m., the general course being east; at 2.35 p.m. camped at a nymphae pool in one of the side channels of the river.
From Journals of Australian Explorations by Augustus Charles Gregory
They are fonder of the tree-shoots than the grass; but their favourite morsels are the buds and flowers of nymphae, especially those of the common pond-lily.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
Riolan in the early part of the seventeenth century reported a case of defective nymphae; Neubauer in 1774 offers a contrast to this case in an instance of triple nymphae.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
It was a tapir, then, which they had heard taking his regular nightly bath, and regaling himself on the roots of the flags and nymphae.
From The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon by Harrison Weir
Labat has found traces of circumcision and excision of nymphae in mummies.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
