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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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