naiad
IPA: nˈaɪæd
noun
- (Greek mythology) A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water.
- (entomology) The aquatic larva (nymph) of a dragonfly or damselfly.
- Any of various aquatic plants of the genus Najas.
- (astronomy) A moon of Neptune
Examples of "naiad" in Sentences
- Pronoe, a naiad of a river in Lycia.
- The naiad is light to dark brown in color.
- The Naiad Press version has not changed much.
- The color of the naiad is mottled green and brown.
- She was also considered to be a naiad or sea nymph.
- The naiads live in the debris of the bottoms of lakes and ponds.
- Alcinoe was also the name of a naiad, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.
- Heracles gave it to the Naiads, who transformed it into the cornucopia.
- Brittle Naiad in the United States is established in the Mid Atlantic States.
- It is suspected that this is due to considerable errors in Naiad's ephemeris.
- It is easy to see how a gnat-cloud might be seen as a dancing naiad, a water sprite.
- The gold satin bow waved in the breeze at me, looking like a willowy naiad or dryad from Greek mythology.
- She was a child of the whole world, as the naiad is the child of the river, and the oread of the mountain.
- And worse still, she's being shadowed by her ditsy twin sister -- a naiad who simply can't seem to stay out of trouble.
- No faun, no selkie, no naiad, and the stocks of human and Centaur-in the cold-larders and in the fattening pens-were (so he said) dangerously low.
- Mecistaeus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless Bucolion; Ulysses overthrows Pidytes of Percosius; Antilochus, Ablerus; Polypaetes,
- I know, I had said the naiad was the most beautiful creature I’d ever seen, but she had been wet and dirty, and, even though she looked like she’d risen out of a Pre-Raphaelite pond, unmistakably Twenty-First Century.
- Was there a marble fountain, which superstition had dedicated to some sequestered naiad — it was surrounded by olives, almond and orange trees — its cistern was repaired, and taught once more to retain its crystal treasures.
- While the Bread and Circus Product Placement Olympi-ad mercifully distracts some from crashing banks, anthrax cover-ups and sub-penis envy, I am doing last minute lobbying of OOC for larger time clock numbers at the pool for my myopic 41 year old naiad shero.