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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to nymphs; nymphean.
  • In zoology, of or pertaining to a nymph or nympha: as, the nymphal stage of an insect.
  • noun A fanciful name given by Drayton to the ten divisions (nymphals) of his poem “The Muses' Elysium.”
  • noun In botany, a member of one of Lindley's alliances, the Nymphales, which includes the Nymphæaceæ. Nelumbiaceæ, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs; nymphean.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs

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