nympha aceæ

pl. [Latin nympha(a); fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ.] Bot .: The typical order of the alliance Nympha les (q. v.). It consists of water plants with a prostrate trunk, great peltate or cordate fleshy leaves, and large, showy, often sweet-scented flowers; sepals four, five, or six; petals many, the inner often pa ing into stamens; stamens numerous, inserted above the petals into the disc; ovary many-celled, many-seeded, with radiating stigmas alternate with the di epiments; fruit many-seeded, indehiscent. Found in the northern hemisphere, also in South America, at the Cape, . Tribes or families two, Euryalide and Nupharide (q. v.). Known genera five, species sixty. năm-phal, a. & s. [Lat. nymph (a)=a nymph; Eng. adj. suff. -al.] A. As adj.: Pertaining or relating to nymphs; nymphean. B. As substantive: 1. Ord . Lang .: A short poem relating to nymphs; spec if., one of the divisions of Drayton's Muses Elysium . 2. Botany: Of or belonging to the Nympha les. (Lindley: Veg. Kingd. (ed. 3d), p. 407.)