"naiad"
Definition:
- A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain.
- Any species of a tribe (Naiades) of freshwater bivalves, including Unio, Anodonta, and numerous allied genera; a river mussel.
- One of a group of butterflies. See Nymph.
- Any plant of the order Naiadaceae, such as eelgrass, pondweed, etc.
Web Definitions for naiad
- Another name for nymph. Naiad is used to refer to the nymph stage of aquatic insects, such as dragonflies.
www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/glossary_hp.htm - a freshwater mussel navigation channel - an artificially maintained waterway that ensures a minimum water depth to allow unimpeded passage for a variety of vessels
www.fws.gov/midwest/mussel/glossary.html - The aquatic growing stage of insects with an incomplete metamorphosis.
www.pestmanagement.co.uk/lib/glossary/glossary_n.shtml - the immature, or nymph, stage of some aquatic insects, such as dragonflies, that undergo incomplete metamorphosis; these organisms have three life stages: egg, naiad, adult; the naiad looks entirely different from the adult
www.kentuckyawake.org/glossary/ - submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water
- (Greek mythology) a nymph of lakes and springs and rivers and fountains
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - In Greek mythology, the Naiads (from the Greek νάειν, "to flow," and νἃμα, "running water") were a type of nymph who presided over fountains, wells, springs, streams, and brooks, as river gods embodied rivers, and some very ancient spirits inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naiad - Naiad (nye'-əd [UK, US] or nay'-əd [US], , Greek Ναϊάδ-ες), or Neptune III, is the innermost satellite of Neptune named after the Naiads of Greek legend.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naiad (moon) - Najas is the botanical name of a genus of aquatic plants. It is cosmopolitan in distribution, totalling a few dozen species. It usually is taken as constituting (by itself) the family Najadaceae.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naiad (plant) - Naiads are water spirits that live in the fresh water places of Narnia. They are most commonly found in the Great River of Narnia. They are human-like in a appearance but have hair that flows like water and crowned with rushes, skin in shades of blue, grey, and green. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naiad (Narnia) - Naiad is a fictional water elemental published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man vol. 2 #90 (October 1990), during the four part Elemetal War storyline that ran to issue #93, and was created by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naiad (comics)