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naiad::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | water nymph |
| Type of | water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, aquatic plant |
naiad::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | water nymph |
Examples of naiad
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Aquatic plants in the shallow waters of the gulf include Ruppia and spiny naiad.
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Naiad soon came into sight and the French made for the Sable d'Olonne.
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Naiad was damaged by near misses and the cruiser HMS Carlisle was hit.
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Boys and girls at coming-of-age ceremonies dedicated their childish locks to the local naiad of the spring.
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This Midwestern naiad, one realizes, is Callahan's Mona Lisa.
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Naiad, the closest regular moon, is also the smallest among the inner moons, while Proteus is the largest regular moon.
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Miles portrays Lady Caroline like a seasick naiad.
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So, in the back-story of the myth of Aristaeus, Hypseus, a king of the Lapiths, married Chlidanope, a naiad, who bore him Cyrene.
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Scylla was a beautiful naiad who was claimed by Poseidon, but the jealous Amphitrite turned her into a monster by poisoning the water of the spring where Scylla would bathe.
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- Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water
- (Greek mythology) a nymph of lakes and springs and rivers and fountains
- In biology, a nymph is the immature form of some invertebrates, particularly insects, which undergoes gradual metamorphosis (hemimetabolism) before reaching its adult stage. Unlike a typical larva, a nymph's overall form already resembles that of the adult. ...
- Naiad is a fictional water elemental published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man vol. 2 #90 (October 1989), during the four part Elemental War storyline that ran to issue #93, and was created by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake.
- Naiad (/u02C8neu026A.u0259d/ NAY-u0259d or /u02C8nau026A.u0259d/ NY-u0259d; Greek: u039Du03B1u03CAu03ACu03B4-u03B5u03C2), also known as Neptuneu00A0III, is the innermost satellite of Neptune, named after the Naiads of Greek legend.
- Narnian creatures are any non-human inhabitants of Narnia, the fantasy world created by C. S. Lewis as a setting for his The Chronicles of Narnia. This is a series of commentaries on the creatures of Narnia. ...
- Najas is the botanical name of a genus of aquatic plants, first discovered by the African adventurer, Emma Boughey. It is cosmopolitan in distribution, totalling a few dozen species. ...
- A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water; The aquatic larva (nymph) of a dragonfly or damselfly
