英语释义
1. any of the minor divinities of nature in classical mythology represented as beautiful maidens dwelling in the mountains, forests, trees, and waters
2. girl
Fair nymphs, and well-dressed youths around her shone …
— Alexander Pope
3. any of various immature insects especially a larva of an insect (such as a grasshopper, true bug, or mayfly) with incomplete (see incomplete sense 3) metamorphosis (see metamorphosis sense 2) that differs from the imago (see imago sense 1) especially in size and in its incompletely developed wings and genitalia
4. a spirit in the shape of a young woman who lives in mountains, forests, meadows, and water
5. a young insect that has almost the same form as the adult
6. one of many goddesses in old legends represented as beautiful young women living in the mountains, forests, and waters
7. an immature insect that differs from the adult chiefly in being of smaller size and having undeveloped wings
8. any of various hemimetabolous insects in an immature stage and especially a late larva (as of a true bug) in which rudiments of the wings and genitalia are present broadly any insect larva that differs chiefly in size and degree of differentiation from the imago
9. a mite or tick in the first eight-legged form that immediately follows the last larval molt
10. a nymphal stage in the life cycle of an insect or acarid