nymph
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The clip showed a conversation between Odysseus and Calypso, a nymph who holds the mythical king on her island for several years.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Hidden in plain sight, an ambush bug nymph waits motionless inside a flower in Michigan.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Echo is presumably the tragic nymph of mythology who was cursed by Hera to be little more than a voice that could only repeat the last words spoken to her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
When I go, I wear a disposable hair net and pretend I’m a grotto nymph, crawling around the corners of my subconscious transporting me back in time.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
“Mr. D offended his father a while back, took a fancy to a wood nymph who had been declared off-limits.”
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
Intermittently “Ballade” includes a lustrous sisterhood of what seem to be junior nymphs attending their sibling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
It possesses a magic that places them alongside folk nymphs like Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, and Sandy Denny.
From BBC ● May 30, 2025
In certain groups of centipedes, Machado writes, "this apparently increases offspring survival, because without the mother the eggs and nymphs always die from fungal attack or unknown reasons."
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
Together with Winchell and Fallon Meng, a PhD student in Winchell's lab studying spotted lanternflies, Owen noticed that lanternflies -- both nymphs and adults -- were showing up earlier each year and remaining active later.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
But if she’d realized that nine desiccated zombie nymphs would be waiting for her, she never would’ve come down here.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing nymph
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Scrabble: Words with no Vowels
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Introductory
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