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Nymph

A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.

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Atlantides 76% connected

The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.

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Daphne 76% connected

A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.

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Dryad 76% connected

A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

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Echo 76% connected

A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.

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Hesperides 76% connected

The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremit…

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Hyades 76% connected

Alt. of Hyads

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Oread 76% connected

One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.

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Pleiades 76% connected

The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.

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Water nymph 76% connected

A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.

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Larva 76% connected

Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, a…

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

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Houri 92% connected

A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans.

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