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Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French nimphe, from Latin nympha, from Greek numphē ‘nymph, bride’; related to Latin nubere ‘be the wife of.’
Definitions
- 1: a mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations.
- 2:a. an immature form of an insect that does not change greatly as it grows, e.g., a dragonfly, mayfly, or locust. Compare with larva.
- b. an artificial fly made to resemble the aquatic nymph of an insect, used in fishing.
- 3 a mainly brown butterfly that frequents woods and forest glades.