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naiad Myth.|ˈneɪæd, ˈnaɪæd|
Also 7 nay-.
[f. L. Nāïad-, Gr. ναϊαδ-, stem of Nāïas νᾱϊάς, related to νάειν to flow, νᾶµα running water, river, etc.]
1. One of a number of beautiful young nymphs imagined as living in, and being the tutelary spirits of, rivers and springs; a river-nymph.
1610Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 128 You Nimphs cald Nayades of y⊇ windring brooks. 1622Drayton Poly-olb. xx. 125 The boughs for garlands..Which the clear Naiads make them anadems withal. 1728–46Thomson Seasons, Spring 400 Down to the river, in whose ample wave Their little Naiads love to sport at large. 1784Cowper Task i. 328 Between them weeps A little Naiad her impov'rish'd urn. a1821Keats Hyperion i. 13 The Naiad 'mid her reeds Press'd her cold finger closer to her lips. 1850J. Leitch tr. C.O. Müller's Anc. Art §403 (ed. 2) 538 To the Nereids of the sea correspond the Naiads of the land. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths I. 101 What nymph or Naiad have you found?
transf.1876R. F. Burton Gorilla L. II. 256 A bubbling brook, a true naiad of the hills.
attrib. and Comb.1820Shelley Sensit. Pl. i. 21 The Naiad-like lily of the vale. 1865C. M. Yonge Clever Woman viii, The naiad performances they shared together on the smooth bit of sandy shore.
2. Ent. = nymph n. 3.
1918J. H. Comstock in Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. XI. 224, I, therefore, propose the restriction of the term nymph to the designating of the early stages of insects with a gradual metamorphosis and the use of the term naiad for designating the immature stages of the Plecoptera, Odonata, and Ephemerida. 1930W. J. Lucas Aquatic (Naiad) Stage Brit. Dragonflies i. 1 The two stages in a dragonfly's life are no less strikingly unlike... Hence arises the necessity for the student of our dragonfly fauna to study and classify the naiads independently of the imagines. 1942E. O. Essig College Entomology i. 11 Naiads of aquatic insects are frequently referred to as nymphs. 1972Swan & Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xv. 171 Metamorphosis in the group [sc. the Odonata] is incomplete or gradual. The naiads or nymphs are important predators of mosquito larvae.
3. Bot. A submerged aquatic plant with linear leaves, belonging to the family Najadaceæ, which includes only one genus, Najas (or Naias).
1966Rhodora LXVIII. 216 (title) Two new naiads from Illinois and distributional records of the Naiadaceae. |