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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A nymph, such as a naiad or Nereid, living in or near water.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Naiad.
  • noun A plant of the genus Naias.
  • noun The water-lily, Castalia (Nymphæa).
  • noun Any dragon-fly.

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

  • (Myth.) A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.
  • (Bot.) A water lily (Nymphæa).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a fairy that inhabits water
  • noun submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water
  • noun (Greek mythology) any nymph of the water
  • noun a water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water; of temperate and tropical regions

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