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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