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- in entomology, sexually immature form usually similar to the adult and found in such insects as grasshoppers and cockroaches, which have incomplete, or hemimetabolic, metamorphosis (see metamorphosis). Wings, if present, ...
- nymph
- in Greek mythology, any of a large class of inferior female divinities. The nymphs were usually associated with fertile, growing things, such as trees, or with water. They were not ...
- Nymphaeales
- the water-lily order of flowering plants, belonging to the class called dicotyledon (characterized by two seed leaves). The order is composed of eight genera and 70 species in five families, ...
- nymphaeum
- ancient Greek and Roman sanctuary consecrated to water nymphs. The name-though originally denoting a natural grotto with springs and streams, traditionally considered the habitat of nymphs-later referred to an artificial ...
- Nymphenburg
- palace, formerly the summer residence outside Munich of the Wittelsbachs, the former ruling family of Bavaria. The late Baroque structure was begun in 1664 by the Prince Elector Maximilian II ...
- Nymphenburg porcelain
- German hard-paste, or true, porcelain produced in Bavaria from around the middle of the 18th century until the present day. The first factory was established in 1747 at the castle ...
- Nyong River
- stream in southwestern Cameroon, west central Africa. It rises 25 mi (40 km) east of Abong Mbang, in the northern rain forest. Its 400-mi (640-km) course, which roughly parallels that ...
- Nyoro
- an Interlacustrine Bantu people living just east of Lake Albert (also called Lake Mobutu Sese Seko), west of the Victoria Nile, in west central Uganda.
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