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nymph: a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly); (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden; "the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water"; a voluptuously beautiful young woman

naiad collapse: (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

Pleiades collapse: a star cluster in the constellation Taurus; (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion

Hyades collapse: (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward

Triton collapse: tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells; the largest moon of Neptune; (Greek mythology) a sea god; son of Poseidon

Oceanus collapse: (Greek mythology) god of the stream that flowed around the earth in ancient mythology

scorpion collapse: arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous sting

tarantula collapse: large hairy tropical spider that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites

caterpillar collapse: a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth; a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work

Poseidon collapse: (Greek mythology) the god of the sea and earthquakes in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and Hades and Hera; identified with Roman Neptune

Neptune collapse: a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; "the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846"; (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon

spider collapse: predatory arachnid that usually has silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey; a skillet made of cast iron; a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine

centipede collapse: chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs the foremost being modified into poison fangs

beetle collapse: insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings; jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"; beat with a beetle; fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"

siren collapse: eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills; an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning; a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound; a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived; "Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song"

rudiment collapse: the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life; "Meckel's diverticulum is the rudiment of the embryonic yolk sac"; the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"

germ collapse: a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism

larva collapse: the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose

god collapse: the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions; a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people; "he was a god among men"

grub collapse: a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects; search about busily

maggot collapse: the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

deity collapse: any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

tart collapse: a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust; a small open pie with a fruit filling

mite collapse: any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

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