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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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Euryalus killed Dresus and Opheltius, and then went in pursuit of Aesepus and Pedasus, whom the naiad nymph Abarbarea had borne to noble Bucolion.
She vanished like a naiad startled by the approach of a mortal.
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.
Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad?
In every tree a Dryad165 dwelt, in every wave a naiad sported.
Ondine is a veritable fountain of silver and vermeil, surmounted by a bronze naiad on a polished shell.

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