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What is a naiad?

What is a naiad? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Greek) A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water.
  2. (entomology) The aquatic larva (nymph) of a dragonfly or damselfly.
  3. Any of various aquatic plants of the genus Najas.
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For a fortnight we cruised without seeing any vessel but the naiad.
That is as much to say, then, that the story of my naiad has displeased the king?
She vanished like a naiad startled by the approach of a mortal.
Euryalus killed Dresus and Opheltius, and then went in pursuit of Aesepus and Pedasus, whom the naiad nymph Abarbarea had borne to noble Bucolion.
The aquatic immature stage, called a nymph or naiad, is widely distributed in freshwater, although a few species can tolerate the brackish water of marine estuaries.
South Uist is considered the best place in the UK for the aquatic plant slender naiad, which is a European Protected Species.

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