nymph
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He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
“You had your chance, Echo!” said the nymph with the iPhone.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Back at Paultons Park the zoo had devised miniature vases designed to keep the stems alive while preventing any newly hatched nymphs from falling into water.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
According to the authors, sideways walking may represent a rare evolutionary innovation seen mainly in true crabs, and possibly in a few other groups like crab spiders and leafhopper nymphs.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 2026
Intermittently “Ballade” includes a lustrous sisterhood of what seem to be junior nymphs attending their sibling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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
The ocean nymphs who visited Prometheus on the crag in the Caucasus spoke only the most ordinary common sense when they said to him:—
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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