Nymph
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

BUG
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

FLY
(baseball) a hit that flies up in the air

4 letters

DOXY
A woman who cohabits with an important man

ECHO
A close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.; "his contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau"; "Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man"

GERM
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

GRUB
Informal terms for a meal

MAID
A female domestic

MISS
A failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

MITE
Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

PUPA
An insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult

TART
Harsh; "sharp criticism"; "a sharp-worded exchange"; "a tart remark"

TICK
Any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals

VILA
Capital of Vanuatu

5 letters

FAIRY
A small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

FETUS
An unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal

LARVA
The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose

NYMPH
A larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)

OREAD
(Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs

WILLI

HOURI
(Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise

DRYAD
A deity or nymph of the woods

NAIAD
Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water

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MAIDEN
(cricket) an over in which no runs are scored

SPRITE
A small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

FOETUS
An unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal

ANLAGE
An organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development

BEETLE
Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

CHIPPY

COCOON
Silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs

NAPAEA
One species: glade mallow

NEREID
(Greek mythology) any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus

MAGGOT
The larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

NYMPHA

OENONE

SPIDER
Predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey

SYRINX
The vocal organ of a bird

ZYGOTE
(genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell)

7 letters

AURELIA

HEXAPOD
An animal having six feet

NYMPHET
A sexually attractive young woman

WIGGLER
One who can't stay still (especially a child); "the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips"

8 letters

ARACHNID
Air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs

BLASTULA
Early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs

CHILOPOD

DIPLOPOD

GRISETTE

LIMONIAD

NYMPHLIN

PLEIADES
A star cluster in the constellation Taurus

RUDIMENT
The remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life; "Meckel's diverticulum is the rudiment of the embryonic yolk sac"

SCORPION
Arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger

WRIGGLER
Larva of a mosquito

9 letters

ARTHROPOD
Invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

CENTIPEDE
Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors

CHRYSALIS
Pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon

DRAGONFLY
Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.

GLENNYMPH

HAMADRYAD
Large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja

MILLEPEDE
Any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs

MILLIPEDE
Any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs

TARANTULA
Large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites

TREENYMPH

WOODNYMPH
A deity or nymph of the woods

10 letters

WATERNYMPH
A fairy that inhabits water

ATLANTIDES
(Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera

HARVESTMAN
Spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs

11 letters

CATERPILLAR
A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

FLOWERNYMPH

DEMIGODDESS

13 letters

DADDYLONGLEGS
Spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs

MOUNTAINNYMPH