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Water nymph   Listen
noun
Water nymph  n.  
1.
(Myth.) A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.
2.
(Bot.) A water lily (Nymphaea).





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"Water nymph" Quotes from Famous Books



... heare no tydings of my Love? In neither desart, grove, nor shadie wood Nor obscure thicket where my foote hath trod? But every plough-man and rude shepheard swain Doth still reply unto my greater paine? Some Satyre, then, or Godesse of this place, Some water Nymph vouchsafed me so much grace As by some view, some signe, or other sho, I may haue knowledge if ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... of beautiful lyric poems, Pushkin left several dramatic fragments: "The Rusalka" or "Water Nymph," on which Dargomyzhsky founded a beautiful opera, "The Stone Guest,"[11] "The Miserly Knight," and chief of all, and like "Evgeny Onyegin," epoch-making in its line, the historical dramatic fragment "Boris Godunoff." This founded a school in Russian dramatic writing. It is ...
— A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections • Isabel Florence Hapgood


Words linked to "Water nymph" :   sprite, Nymphaea, genus Nymphaea, water lily, nymph, undine, Nymphaea odorata, pond lily, water sprite, aquatic plant, Greek mythology, naiad, water spirit, genus Naias, fay, Naias, fragrant water lily, hydrophyte, genus Najas, sea nymph, hydrophytic plant, Najas, water plant, faery


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