Water-nymph
121Platée — ( Plataea ) is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Jean Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Adrien Joseph Le Valois d Orville. Rameau bought the rights to the libretto Platée ou Junon Jalouse ( Plataea, or Juno Jealous ) by Jacques Autreau… …
122Mary Kay Bergman — Données clés Naissance 6 mai 1961 Los Angeles, Californie États Unis Nationalité Américaine D …
123naiad — n. [Gr. Naias, water nymph] (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In Hemimetabola, the aquatic, gill breathing nymph …
124neuromyth — (NOO.roh.mith) n. A popular but false belief about the brain. Also: neuro myth. Example Citations: I am fascinated by our growing understandings of the human brain and the implications for learning and teaching. But I ve always been sceptical… …
125siren — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. water nymph, temptress, vamp, vampire, gold digger (sl.), Circe, Lorelei, Delilah, Jezebel; alarm, warning, signal. See demon, attraction, female. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. 1. warning signal… …
126naiad — (n.) water nymph, c.1600, from L. Nais, Naias (gen. naiadis), from Gk. Naias (pl. Naiades) river nymph, from naiein to flow, from PIE *naw yo , suffixed form of root * (s)nau to swim, flow, let flow (see NUTRIMENT (Cf …
127sea-maid — n. 1. Mermaid, siren. 2. Sea nymph, water nymph …
128naiad — nai•ad [[t]ˈneɪ æd, əd, ˈnaɪ [/t]] n. pl. ads, a•des [[t] əˌdiz[/t]] 1) myt (in Greek myth) any of a group of nymphs presiding over rivers and springs 2) ent the aquatic nymph of certain insects, as the dragonfly or mayfly 3) pln any of several… …
