In Greek mythology, the naiads (/ˈnaɪædz, ˈneɪædz, -ədz/; Greek: ναϊάδες, translit. naïádes) are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains...

The Naiads are water-centered nymphs in Greek mythology. Naiad may also refer to: Naiad (character), the water elemental of the DC Universe Naiad Press...

The Fountain of the Naiads (Italian: Fontana delle Naiadi) is a fountain in Rome, Italy, located at the centre of the Piazza della Repubblica on the Viminal...

Creusa (/kriːˈuːsə/; Ancient Greek: Κρέουσα Kreousa "princess" ) was a Naiad and daughter of Gaia. She bore Hypseus, future king of the Lapiths and Stilbe...

Ancient Greek: Θυία Thuia derived from the verb θύω "to sacrifice") the Naiad-nymph of a spring on Mount Parnassos in Phokis (central Greece) and was...

Naiad /ˈneɪəd/, (also known as Neptune III and previously designated as S/1989 N 6) named after the naiads of Greek legend, is the innermost satellite...

Naiad Press (1973–2003) was an American publishing company, one of the first dedicated to lesbian literature. At its closing it was the oldest and largest...

means 'mare who kills mercifully') was the name of both a spring and the Naiad (a Crinaea) associated with it. The spring is in Boeotia, near Thespiae...

Naiad is a character appearing in comics published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man (vol. 2) #90 (October 1989), during...

Naiad Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Наяда, romanized: ezero Nayada, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro nɐˈjadɐ]) is the roughly rectangular 230 m-long (250 yd) in south-north direction...

Diana Nyad /ˈnaɪˌæd/ (née Sneed; born August 22, 1949) is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. Nyad gained...

also called naiads, an Ancient Greek name for mythological water nymphs. Some entomologists have said that it the terms larva, nymph and naiad should be...

In Greek mythology, Drosera (Ancient Greek: Δροσερή) was a naiad. She was one of the three ancestors of the Tyrians, along with Abarbarea and Callirrhoe...

HMS Naiad (F39) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). Like the rest of the class, Naiad was named after a figure or figure of mythology...

Greek mythology, Melite (/ˈmɛlɪtiː/; Ancient Greek: Μελίτη) was one of the Naiads, daughter of the river god Aegaeus, and one of the many loves of Zeus and...

ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Naiad after a Greek mythological figure, the Naiad HMS Naiad (1783), formerly the Naiade, which Sceptre, a...

The Napier Naiad is a British turboprop gas-turbine engine designed and built by D. Napier & Son in the late 1940s. It was the company's first gas turbine...

USS Naiad was a sternwheel paddle steamer of the Union Navy in the American Civil War. In Greek mythology, naiads are nymphs who lived in and gave life...

HMS Naiad was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy which served in the Second World War. She was sunk in action on 11 March 1942 south of Crete...

of water. The group contains many species, including nereides, limnads, naiades, mermaids and potamides. What undines lack, compared to humans, is a soul...

The Oceanids (The Naiads of the Sea) (French: Les Océanides (Les Naiades de la Mere)) is a painting by Gustave Doré, dated to c. 1860. It depicts the Oceanids...

such as the Meliae (ash tree nymphs), the Dryads (oak tree nymphs), the Naiads (freshwater nymphs), the Nereids (sea nymphs), and the Oreads (mountain...

Freshwater bivalves are one kind of freshwater mollusc, along with freshwater snails. They are bivalves that live in fresh water as opposed to salt water...

Naiads is a 1984 fountain and sculpture by Jack Greaves, installed by the Capitol Square skyscraper in Columbus, Ohio. The bronze sculpture depicts two...

The Naiad 18 is a Canadian trailerable sailboat, that was designed by Mark Ellis, first built from 1984 to 1986, and named for the mythological water...

chaleur de cet après-midi. Enfin, las de poursuivre les nymphes et les naïades apeurées dans leur fuite, il s'abandonne à un sommeil enivrant, riche de...

Naiad June Einsel (June 6, 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – April 3, 2016 in Westport, Connecticut) was an American commercial illustrator and artist...

Salmacis (Ancient Greek: Σαλμακίς) was an atypical Naiad nymph of Greek mythology. She rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favour...

Florence. In 1826, he designed, together with Giovanozzi, the Fountain of the Naiads in Empoli. In 1834, he completed a bust of Maria Antonietta of Bourbon,...

in service until just prior to the outbreak of the First World War. The Naïades were designed by Gaston Romazotti, an early French submarine engineer and...