Definitions for wood-nymph

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Wood-Nymph is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in wood-nymph (-dhmnoopwy).

Definitions for wood-nymph

noun

  1. (especially in legend) a nymph of the woods; dryad.
  2. a brown satyr butterfly, Minois alope, having a broad yellow band and black-and-white eyespots on each front wing.
  3. any of several Central and South American hummingbirds, especially of the genus Thalurania.

Origin of wood-nymph

First recorded in 1570-80

Examples for wood-nymph

When he had first seen Cynthia among the willows by Coniston Water, he had thought her a wood nymph.

Here a maid, garbed as a wood nymph, appeared leading a swan which wore the collar of the Golden Fleece and a porcupine.

"I'd rather see one than a wood nymph," one of them declared.

Through the hush, the gleeman began to sing the "Romance of King Offa," the king who married a wood nymph for dear love's sake.

Lance-straight and slender, his wood nymph waded knee deep through the ferns.

Over these they laid the bark, and covered the whole with green boughs, till a bower was formed worthy of a wood nymph.

Perhaps we shall awaken a wood nymph and teach her to become a mortal maid.

Emerging from the deep shadow of the trees was what looked to their astonished and unprepared eyes a vision of some wood nymph.

Sylvia was a wood nymph in a fashionable dress; Woodville, a faun in Bond Street clothes.

She would never understand this talk of forgetting that one was not a wood nymph.

Word Value for wood-nymph
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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