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A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas Milton.

Same as Nymph, 3.

A genus of aquatic plants having showy flowers (white, blue, pink, or yellow, often fragrant), including the white water lily and the Egyptia lotus.

Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs; nymphean.

An extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs, the satyrs, the monarchs, the heliconias, and others; -- called also brush-footed butterflies.

Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as, a nymphean cave.

A little or young nymph. [Poetic] "The nymphets sporting there." Drayton.

Of or pertaining to nymphs.

Producing pupas or nymphs.

Relating to nymphs; ladylike. "Nymphish war." Drayton.

Resembling, or characteristic of, a nymph.

s of demoniac enthusiasm or possession coming upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy. [R.] De Quincey. The nympholepsy of some fond despair. Byron.

Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied. [Poetic]

Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.

Same as Nymphomania.

Excision of the nymphæ.

A friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride. Milton.

Bridal; nuptial. [R.] At some paranymphal feast. Ford.

The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state.

A water lily (Nymphæa).