n. 宁芙;纽墨菲;居于山林水泽的仙女(nymph的复数)
n (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden
n a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
n a voluptuously beautiful young woman

Cicadas Swarm Wide Portions of US The cicadas are back. Over the past few weeks, across a wide swath of the eastern United States, the notoriously noisy bugs have emerged by the billions from their long, underground adolescence. On a muggy afternoon

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The Worlds Biggest Spittoon In the spring, the eastern half of North America turns into one big spittoon for spittlebugs. Wandering through a meadow, its easy to spot the gobs of foam they produce, stuck to the stems of various plants. What makes spi

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abdominal ovariectomy
abhorrers
AC rectifying type round instrument
aluminum matrix composite
application modernization
auditors grade 1
automobile
biotic 1, biotical
blistering colllodion
Bohemic
borrow against
Broad-Church
Buritis
butt ramming
carbamate insecticides
cargo sharing
cerchov (czerkow)
chemotype
churchhouses
circular amputation
cloud group
copper industry
data slit
decyclization
dial exchage
diclofenace
differentiable one-parameter subgroup
dimercur-
double bag
double-flowered
downcast side
dressed tube
earthballs
enforceable approach
eye-measurement
facial palsy
field-experience
film parametron
fire-refined copper
fuel oil distribution box
geim
general acoustics
goblet body
haiweeite
hypertensive papillo-retino-pathy
ideal continuous-to-discrete-time (c/d) onversion
interdenominational
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investment banking business
jailcells
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Kindle Fire
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lifting injector
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malacological anatomy
microphotograph
mini-worlds
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monoclinic pyroxene
multidrill
mycosphaerella cerasella aderhold
nagurski
oxidative chemical decomposition of graphite
pattisons
Photinia villosa
photometrology
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prior to dormancy
program interrupt entry
Psyquil
Raspberry Pie
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rudderfishes
runs dry
satellite Doppler navigation
segregational load
senoras
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steel alloy
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stocah
sucrose monostearate
systematic anticoagulant
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Tekapo, L.
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