nymph
nymph (nimf)
noun
- Gr. & Rom. Myth. any of a group of minor nature goddesses, represented as young and beautiful and living in rivers, mountains, or trees
- a lovely young woman
- a young woman; maiden: literary or playful usage
- Entomology the young of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis, differing from the adult primarily in size and structural proportions
Etymology: ME nimphe < OFr < L nympha < Gr nymphē, young wife, spring goddess, hence (poetically) water: see nubile
Converse of object
- hatch: The hatched nymph looks more or less like a smaller version of the adult.
- tie: These are great for tying trout nymphs in natural colors.
- fish: Do you fish a nymph or a dry fly?
- call: Among them was a water nymph called Tamara who dwelt with her parents in a subterranean home on the border of the moors.
Adjective modifier
- weighted: I also use weighted pheasant tail nymphs in sizes 10 to 14.
- Czech: Last year his best Czech nymph was made from orange rabbit with black thorax or with a goldhead.
- naked: Three naked nymphs vanish as I'm jerked back to wakefulness.
- heavy: I tackled my ten foot three piece five weight rod with a heavy caddis nymph.
- beautiful: By chance he finally glimpses the elusive creature - a beautiful sea nymph, who has crossed into our world from her own.
- young: Moving around The young nymphs crawl around in the sediment.
Modifies a noun
- fisherman: As a regular nymph fisherman I have a box of just nymphs and boxes for dry flies.
- fishing: The germ of an idea was the start of his pursuit of the development of nymph fishing.
- pattern: Czech nymph patterns range from size 8 to 14.
- stage: The nymph stage of the pest, is particularly, damaging to citrus plants.
Noun used with modifier
- stonefly: I also like the legs on his stonefly nymph.
- mayfly: The marl provides excellent conditions for the mayfly nymphs to make a stable burrow in which they dwell for approximately 2 years.
- pheasant: I also use weighted pheasant tail nymphs in sizes 10 to 14.
- dragonfly: Could you tell a dragonfly nymph from a great diving beetle?
- damsel: Artificial damsel nymphs can be fished with faster pulls than you'd use with smaller nymphs.
- tail: I also use weighted pheasant tail nymphs in sizes 10 to 14.
Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.
Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw, Or stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade.
And the rose like a nymph to the bath addressed, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air The soul of her beautyand love lay bare.
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