~ NYMPH       id+ | FEMININE MAGIC ELEGANCE |
~ NYMPHA      id+ | BEAUTY  CHARM | or pl  
~ NYMPHAE     id+ | "WATER MAKING" SITE per human females | 
              id+ | or PUPA for 2nd STAGE of INSECT METAMORPHOSIS | 
~ NYMPHAEA    id+ | YOUNG BEES in lat | 
~ NYMPHAEUM   id+ | TEMPLE OF THE NYMPHS in lat | 
~ NYMPHARENA  id+ | PRECIOUS PERSIAN STONE in lat | 
~ NYMPHE      id+ | CLITORIS in lat | 
~ NYMPHITIS   id+ | INFLAMATION OF THE INNER VULVA |  
~ NYPHOMANIA  id+ | MYTH OF HYSTERIC MADNESS | or
              id+ | UTERINE FUROR | 
~ NYMPHOTOMIA id+ | RESECTION of LABIA MINORA | thus AMPUTATION of
              id+ | NYMPH or VULVA'S INNER LABIA or CLITORIS | 
~ NYMPHOS     id+ | element for prefix suffix re NYMPH | 
              id+ | PARANYMPHOS lat for GODFATHER | 
              id+ | NYMPH implies PURITY implicit in see> LYMPH | 
              id+ | PURITY implied per LOTUS and BUDDING FLOWERS |
              id+ | NYMPHAE as per OPENING ROSEBUD | 
              id+ | NYMPHA or ATTRACTIVE NUBILE FEMALE | 
              id+ | BRIDE | 
              id+ | SEDUCTIVE MAIDEN | 
              id+ | CAPACITY TO CHARM DEITIES | 
              id+ | TO DIVE perhaps into MARRIAGE | 
              id+ | TO BURROW as per FISTULA or CAVITY | 
              id+ | NUPTA is a COSTUME or VEIL for NUPTIALS |
              id+ | NUPTA ia also a COSTUME for MARRIED WOMEN |  
              id+ | CHRYSALIS is a COSTUME for NYMPHS | 
  etym> note complementary contents in  see> LYMPH 
  etym> note complementary contents in  see> CLITORIS 
  etym> conveys ideas regarding PURE WATER NYMPH LYMPH 
        BRIDES being COVERED or VEILED 
  FLOWER BUDS LOTUS BUDDHA as emblems of PURITY   
  NUBILE NUPTIALS CREATION pointing toward VENEREAL VENUS 
  NEREID  NEREUS  NORA NURA pointing to DIVING CAVES CAVITY     
  NYMPH and CLITORIS as "WATER MAKING SPOT" per human females     
  lat     LYMPHATICUS = LOVE MAD  see> LYMPH 
  myth>   NUMPHE        GODDESS OF WATERS 
  lat     LYMPHA        WATER also 
  med>    NYMPHA        ALAE INTERNAE MINORES 
  lat     CLITORIDIS    CLITORIS                 
  gr      NYMPHE        BRIDE 
          NYMPH         PURE AS CLEAR WATER 
  biol>                 YOUNG INSECT 
  sp      NIMFA         CHARMING YOUNG MAIDEN    
  eng     NYMPHET       diminutive NYMPHA 
  gr      NYMPHE        BRIDE or YOUNG GIRL also 
  biol>   NYMPHAEA      EXQUISITE WATER LILLIES
  note                  LOTUS as SACRED FLOWER EMBLEM 
  med>    NYMPHAE       INNER LABIA or INNER LIPS 
                        of the VULVA                        
      PARANYMPHOS       GODFATHER  
  sp      NINFA         NYMPH 
  med>    LYMPH         BLOOD FREE INTERCELLULAR FLUID
  sp      LINFA         CLEAR HUMOR or SECRETION
  vern>   NYMPHOMANIA   a myth given below pointing to 
  myth> CYTHEROMANIA    from                    
        CYTHREA         or 
        CYPRUS          birth island of APHRODITE  
  myth> CLITUMNUS       ROMAN TEMPLES dedicated to NYMPAHE 
                        the name points to CLITORIS 
                        ROMANS believed that WATERCOURSES 
                        were the habitat of NYMPHAE
  lat      NUBERE       MARRIAGE 
                        TO COVER  VAIL 
  hx>                   VAILS COVER BRIDAL FACES 
  med> hx>              PERHAPS TO WARD OFF THE "EVIL EYE" 
  eng      NUANCE       VEILED or "COVERED" EXPRESSION 
  ukr      NORA         CAVE  COVERED CAVITY note NURKA below  
  sp       NOVIA        or 
  Albanian NUSE         same 
  sp       NUBE         CLOUD  
  hx>      NUPTA        WOMEN COVERED BY A VEIL or 
  lat      NUBERE       a large VEIL or SHRUD or  
  hx>                   COSTUME or VESTMENT OF MARRIED WOMEN 
  lat      NUPTUS       WEDDING or  
           NUPTERE      NUPTIALS 
  eng      NUBILE       MARRIAGEABLE AGE 
  lat      NURUS        DAUGHTER IN LAW or 
  sp       NUERA        same  
  myth>    NEREUS       father of 
           NEREIDS      sort of NYMPHS or see> RUSALKI 
  ukr      NURT         RUNNING WATER STREAM 
           NURKA        DIVER also 
  biol>    OTTER        in ukr 
  ukr      NURATY       TO DIVE  PLUNGE or
           NORETZ       DIVER 
  med>     NORITZIA     FISTULA in ukr implying 
                        TO BURROW HOLES or CAVES 
  biol>    NORYK        MINK in ukr  a CAVE MAKING 
                        BURROWING ANIMAL 
  myth>    NYMPHA       WATER MORTAL CHARMING CREATURE and 
  biol>                 UVENILE in this instance INSECT or 
        CHRYSALLIS      or 
  gr    CHRYSALLIDES    PUPAL STAGE OF BUTTERFLIES often with  
                        GOLDEN OVERTONES 
        CHRYSOS         GOLD 
  myth>    NYMPH        or RUSALKA   sug> RUSS 
                        see NYMPHA above WHO POPULATED MOST 
  STREAMS LAKES AND FOUNTAINS 
  AKIN TO MERMAIDS AND FAIRIES
  ALWAYS CHEERFUL AND HAPPY AS WELL AS 
  ETERNALLY YOUNG WHO STOOD AS PERSONIFICATION OF 
  THE TEMPTING NATURE OF LOVELY YOUG MAIDENS 
  NYMPHS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SEA WERE DAUGHTERS OF 
  OCEANUS AND KNOWN AS OCEANIDS 
  WESTERN SEASE WERE THE HABITAT OF NEREIDS 
  DAUGHTERS OF NEREUS 
  myth> SAINT NUMPHA is a LEGENDARY MARTYR FIGURE 
        CELEBRATED ON NOVEMBER 10 BY ROMAN CATHOLICS and 
  FEBRUARY FIST BY THE ORTHODOX CALENDAR OF SAINTS 
  myth> hx> THE WATER LILLY or LOTUS or "NYMPHAE BLOSSOM 
            emerges as a WHITE PURE BLOOM found in 
  MANY MURKY SWAMPS 
  myth> NYMPHOMANIA was coined in the 1800's during the 
        Victorian era when prostitution thrived but 
  female sexuality was severely repressed 
  note that the term should but DOES NOT imply 
  MEN desiring YOUNG GIRLS  such is called 
  SATYRIASIS  sug> SATYR 
  NYMPHOMANIA became a pseudo "diagnosis" to brand 
  WOMEN SEXUALITY which then was seen as "indecent" 
  implying EXCESSIVE or "sick" SEXUAL APPETITE or  
  UTERINE "FEVER" or "FUROR" or even 
  CYTHEROMANIA pointing to APHRODITE or VENUS 
  note that such "diagnosis" was invoked to INCARCERATE 
  many women in JAILS and MENTAL INSTITUTIONS 
  and was and still being invoked in courts to 
  defend RAPIST by suggestions of "SHE ASKED FOR IT ..."  
  hx> biol> NELUMBO NICIFERA or SACRED LOTUS is an 
            EMBLEM OF CREATION 
  IT RISES FROM THE DIVINE MUD and became the 
  FLOWER of BRAHMA "THE CREATOR" and 
  VISHNU the emblem of "WHO PRESEVES" and 
  LAKSHMI who is "POTENT" 
  hx> THE LOTUS BECAME A SACARED FLOWER IN BUDDHISM 
      A REPRESENTATION OF 
  HOLISTIC PURITY 
  THE BLOSSOM EMERGES FROM THE MUD 
  IT OPENS ITS PETALS TO THE LIGHT 
  AKIN TO THE HUMAN SOUL THAT 
  WALLOWS IN THE DARNESS OF EVIL BUT CAN 
  OPEN ITS PETALS TO THE ENLIGHTENED BY BUDDHA 
  cont> see> CLITORIS 
  med> note NYMPHAE in ANATOMY for 
       LABIA MINORA OF THE VULVA 
  med> some old medical dictionaries defined 
       NYMPH as an "OPENING ROSEBUD"  
  med> NYMPHOMANIA once a POPULAR "DIAGNOSIS" 
       during the "VICTORIAN" era "PURITANISM" 
  when PROSTITUTION prospered but HOMOSEXUALITY and 
  FEMALE SEXUALITY was "INDICENT" and 
  branded as "NYPHOMANIA" prosecuted even by medicine 
  by such "DIAGNOSIS" that justified many admissions to  
  MENTAL INSTITUTIONS and used in courts to DEFEND RAPIST 
  beyond ENGLAND such "DIAGNOSIS" never gained popularity 
  and is now fully DISCREDITED 
  med> in a medical dictionary of 1849 [106] is given 
       " ... MADNESS ... VIOLENT DESIRE FOR COITION IN 
  WOMEN ... MOST HUMILIATING TO HUMAN NATURE ... CAUSE IS 
  A PRETERNATURAL IRRITABILITY OF THE UTERUS AND PUDENDA 
  OF WOMEN ... AN ANUSUAL ACRIMONY OF THE FUIDS IN THESE 
  PARTS ... SAME CAUSES AS SATYRIASIS; BUT AS FEMALES ... 
  HAVE A MORE IRRITABLE FIBRE THEY ARE MORE APT TO SUFFER 
  MORE SEVERLY THAT THE MALES ..." 
  med> in another medical dictionary of 1878 [119] is given 
       " ... INCREASED VENEREAL APPETITE ... A VERITABLE FOLLY 
  ... NOT RARE IN DOMESTIC FEMALE ANIMALS DEPRIVED OF MALES ... 
  ALSO A SYMPTOM OF SOME OVARIAN TUMORS ... CEASING AFTER 
  RESECTION OR CASTRATION ... SUCH WOMEN MAY BE DANGEROUS 
  TO MEN AND TO ANIMALS ... " 
  med> also from [119] cited above 
       " ... NYMPHOTOMY OR NYMPHOTOMIA or EXCISION OF NYMPHES 
  ... AMPUTATION OF THE CLITORIS [also] CALLED BY THE ANCIENTS 
  NYMPHE ... NYMPHOTOMY TOTALE (resection of both) ... FEMALE 
  EQUIVALENT OF THE CIRCUMCISION OF BOYS ...  (practice of) 
  ARABS ... AND DUVERS AFRICAN POPULATIONS ..."     
  med> NYMPHITIS or INFLAMATION OF THE LABIA MINORA  
  biol> NYMPHEA LOTUS or EGYPTIAN LOTUS 
  biol> NYMPHEA MAJOR LUTEA or YELLOW WATER LILLY or LOTUS 
  biol> NYMPHEA NELUMBO produces a FRUIT consumed as 
        EGYPTIAN BEAN EATEN RAW or COOKED 
  biol> NYMPHE or PUPA concerns the second stage of 
        insect metamorphosis mainly when the 
  INSECT GAINS MOTION or becomes ANIMATED  sug> ANIMAL or 
  MOBILE CHRYSALID  sug> CHRYSO      
  biol> in ENTOMOLOGY NYMPHA DENOTES A YOUNG INSECT or 
        PUPA in the final STAGES OF METAMORPHOSIS ending 
  in the EMERGENCE of a BUTTERFLY 
  note PUPA also denotes A MARGINAL STRUCTURE or 
       LIP or BEAK LIKE found in some BIVALVE ORGANISMS 
  known as NYMPHALETES  NYMPHALIS  NYMPHALIDAE
  NYMPHALIDES  NYMPHASTER NYMPHICUS 
  biol> CICADA emerge from NYMPHS and 
        imply STRIDENT or HOARSE SOUNDING 
  among the "PERIODIC CICADA" is the amazing and 
  well known MAGICICADA SEPTEMDECIM or the 
  MAGIC "SEVENTEEN-YEAR-LOCUST" that emerges from a 
  subterranean life as a NYMPH or IMMATURE INSECT 
  to rapidly shed its "skin" to become a two inch long 
  famous "PERIODICAL CICADA" leaving behind 
  NYMPHAL CASTS that fascinate many children 
  some of whom learn of VIRGIL [#] 
  who wrote in his "ECLOGUES II, 12-13" 
  "RAUCIS ... RESONANT CICADIS ... " 
  RESONANT ARE THE CICADAS ON THE TREES ... 
  lat RAUCUS = HARSH STRIDENT 
  eng RANCOR   ACRIMONY  BITTERNESS   
  biol> to sustain the WORM to BUTTERFLY METAMORPHOSIS 
        many insects construct a CACOON or 
  NYMPHON for BRIDE CHAMBER 
  lit+ "LOLITA" is a 1955 novel about a NYMPHET by 
       Vladimir NABOKOV [#] 
  art> NYMPHS are often represented as 
       DAMSELS OF WONDERFUL BEAUTY
  AS LESSER DIVINITIES NYMPHS WERE SEEN AS CANDIDATES FOR
  BRIDES or MISTRESSES or for MATING WITH THE GODS or
  as DAUGHTERS OF GODS lacking any implications of 
  BASTARDY notably OLYMPIC GODS ALWAYS 
  ACKNOWLEDGED THEIR PATERNITY and PARENTHOOD
  Lucas CRANACH [#] PRODUCED A PAINTING KNOWN AS
  NYMPH OF THE SPRING at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
  New York which OPENLY ILLUSTRATES SEDUCTIVE NOTIONS
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& NYMPH
  astr> SEVEN SISTERS BECAME STARS AND WERE PLACED AS 
        THE CONSTELLATION OF THE BULL or TAURUS
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& NYMPH
  note NYMPHS WERE THE FEMALE SEXUAL ELEMENT
       LINKED WITH THE PREROGATIVES OF
  PROMISCUOUS OLYMPIC GODS WHO PROBABLY WERE BORED AND
  WELCOMED THE DISTRACTION OFFERED BY AN ARMY OF
  PERPETUALLY YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL BUT MORTAL GIRLS
  ENDOWED WITH A HEALTHY SEXUAL APPETITE   sug> RELISH
  GODS WERE TO BE SEDUCED                  sug> SEDATE
  CONTRARY TO ROYAL MORTALS WHO            sug> IMPOSE
  CLAIMED THE RIGHT TO RAPE                sug> RAPACITY 
  cont> see> LYMPH  see> CLITORIS