nymphs

1. Female spirits of classical mythology who lived in forests, bodies of water, and other places outdoors.

By extension, a “nymph” is a beautiful or seductive woman.

Example Sentences

The masque’s subject is problematic: Some beautiful African water nymphs—portrayed by the queen and her ladies-in-waiting in blackface—wish to travel to Britain to be made white.

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Intermittently “Ballade” includes a lustrous sisterhood of what seem to be junior nymphs attending their sibling.

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In certain groups of centipedes, Machado writes, "this apparently increases offspring survival, because without the mother the eggs and nymphs always die from fungal attack or unknown reasons."

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Eventually, the cicada nymphs will hatch, fall into the ground, burrow down, and start their 13- and 17-year cycles all over again.

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The hunched, hard-shelled, butterscotch-colored nymphs that first emerge from the ground are easy to scoop up as they scurry.

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