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# nymph

«nymph» in Mova's school dictionary: **a nature spirit who looks like a young woman and lives in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a nymph, nymphs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In Greek and Roman myths, a nymph is a nature spirit who looks like a young woman and lives in a forest, river, sea or mountain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nymph/#m1)

2) In science, a nymph is the young form of some insects, like dragonflies and grasshoppers, that look a bit like the adult but have no wings yet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nymph/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, insects such as grasshoppers, dragonflies and cockroaches grow by incomplete metamorphosis: egg, nymph, adult; dragonfly nymphs live underwater. In myth stories, nymphs (like Echo) appear in Greek legends.

### examples

- A dragonfly nymph lives in the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nymph/#x1)
- In the Greek myth, Echo was a nymph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nymph/#x2)
- Grasshopper nymphs have no wings yet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nymph/#x3)
- Water nymphs lived in the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nymph/#x4)
- The nymph sheds its skin as it grows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nymph/#x5)
- The painting shows nymphs dancing in a forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nymph/#x6)
- The MELIADES were the nymphs who presided over fruit-trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nymph/#x7)

### note

Countable. Spelled with "ph" sounding like f and a "y": nymph. Insects like butterflies have larvae (caterpillars), not nymphs.

### In the corpora

- [An adult mayfly lives about a day, after a year or more as a nymph underwater.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nymph» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nymph/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.