nympha
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nympha
1595–1605; < Latin nympha ( see nymph)
Example Sentences
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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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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 Sutherland, Halliday G.
Christina, dulcis nympha, diutiùs Ne te moretur: qui merito clues Prudens Ulysses, sperne doctæ Popula deliciasque Circes.
From A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Morton, Charles
Virgil makes his wife's name Marica— Hunc Fauna, et nympha genitum Laurente Marica Accipimus.—Aen. vii.
From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius
In the last line of Crashaw's epigram the reading in Poemata Anglorum Latina is 'Vidit et erubuit nympha pudica Deum.'
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
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