nymph
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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
Many humans are infected when they’re nipped by nymph ticks, a period in their life cycle when they’re roughly the size of a poppy seed and barely visible to the naked eye.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2025
The Pleiades myth describes the seven daughters of the titan Atlas and nymph Pleione.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2024
So she told her sister nymph, Doris, who had rather hoped to attract the Cyclops herself, and who began the talk by saying scornfully, “A fine lover you’ve got—that Sicilian shepherd. Everybody’s talking about it.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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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