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NOUN
- (Greek mythology) a nymph of lakes and springs and rivers and fountains
- submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water
How To Use naiad In A Sentence
- Naiadas Satyris caneret Fontanus amatas, 35 clauderet imparibus uerba Capella modis, cumque forent alii, quorum mihi cuncta referre nomina longa mora est, carmina uulgus habet, essent et iuuenes quorum, quod inedita cura est, appellandorum nil mihi iuris adest 40 The Last Poems of Ovid
- If the vegetation is primarily milfoil, musk grass, pondweed, or naiad, these stocking rates are recommended.
- ‘If I didn't know better, I would of thought all of you damsels were rain forest naiads,’ he laughed.
- Here and there are disposed naiads and leaping satyrs.
- Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders.
- Those who meet the naiad , must consider it of good omen and must trust the favorable solution of his problems.
- Salmacis was the only one of the naiads who did not follow the teachings of Artemis and did not vary her routine with the vigorous exercise of the hunt.
- If the encounters between scholars and sylphs, poets and naiads record the possibility of connection between two sentient beings, Badri also records the possibility of connection between the individual and the universe.
- Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad? There & Back
- She was a child of the whole world, as the naiad is the child of the river, and the oread of the mountain. There & Back
