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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A nymph of the forest; a dryad.
  2. n. Any of several tropical hummingbirds of the genera Thalurania and Cyanophaia.
  3. n. Any of various butterflies of the family Satyridae, especially Cercyonis pegala, having brownish wings with dark eyespots.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A goddess of the woods; a dryad.
  2. n. The humming-bird Thalurania glaucopis.
  3. n. One of several zygænid moths, of the genus Eudryas, as E. grata, the beautiful wood-nymph, and E. unio, the pearl wood-nymph. The larvæ of both of these species feed on the vine in the United States.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (a), (Zoöl.), (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored South American humming birds belonging to the genus Thalurania. The males are bright blue, or green and blue.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a deity or nymph of the woods

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