Nymph

1. n. Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; — called also naiad.
2. n. A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.
3. n. A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel.
4. n. The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.