Word Meanings - NYMPHAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs; nymphean.

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• NYMPHOLEPSY
  A species of demoniac enthusiasm or possession coming upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy. De Quincey. The nympholepsy of some fond despair. Byron.
• NYMPHOMANIA
  Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
• NYMPHALES
  An extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs, the satyrs, the monarchs, the heliconias, and others; -- called also brush-footed butterflies.
• NYMPHAL
  Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs; nymphean.
• NYMPHLIKE; NYMPHLY
  Resembling, or characteristic of, a nymph.
• NYMPHOTOMY
  Excision of the nymphæ.
• NYMPHIC; NYMPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to nymphs.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• NYMPHIPAROUS
  Producing pupas or nymphs.
• NYMPHISH
  Relating to nymphs; ladylike. "Nymphish war." Drayton.
• NYMPHOMANY
  See NYMPHOMANIA
• NYMPH
  A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas Milton. 2. Hence: A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel. Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins
• NYMPHAEA
  A genus of aquatic plants having showy flowers (white, blue, pink, or yellow, often fragrant), including the white water lily and the Egyptia lotus. Note: Recent critics have endeavored to show that this genus should be called Castalia, and the
• NYMPHET
  A little or young nymph. "The nymphets sporting there." Drayton.
• NYMPHOLEPTIC
  Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied.
• NYMPHA
  See PL
• NYMPHEAN
  Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as, a nymphean cave.
• PARANYMPHAL
  Bridal; nuptial. At some paranymphal feast. Ford.
• SEMINYMPH
  The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state.
• PARANYMPH
  A friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride. Milton. The bridesmaid who conducted the bride to the bridegroom. 2. Hence: An ally; a supporter or abettor. Jer. Taylor.
• WATER NYMPH
  A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.