wood nymph

(especially in legend) a nymph of the woods; dryad.

a brown satyr butterfly, Minois alope, having a broad yellow band and black-and-white eyespots on each front wing.

any of several Central and South American hummingbirds, especially of the genus Thalurania.

Origin of wood nymph

First recorded in 1570–80

She was not a wood-nymph of old mythology, but an incarnation of the spirit of youth that all morning had pursued him.

The Gilded Man |Clifford Smyth
Upon the huge rock at the centre was the Wood-nymph, who held in her hand a pine torch which burned in a big red flame.

Tell Me Another Story |Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Overhead,940 Hung a lush scene of drooping weeds, and spread Thick, as to curtain up some wood-nymph's home.

Endymion |John Keats
What would that dear lady think about Madge Brierly, wood-nymph, rustic phenomenon?

In Old Kentucky |Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

"You can't be a wood-nymph if you have to wear rubbers," was her decision.

Anne Of Avonlea |Lucy Maud Montgomery

wood nymph

one of a class of nymphs fabled to inhabit the woods, such as a dryad