- dryads - from the word for tree or oak, tree nymphs
or sometimes used for nymphs in general
- meliads - of the ash trees or fruit trees in
general
- hamadryads - tree nymphs who are born and die with
their trees
- oreades - of the mountains
- naiads - of springs, general bodies of water
- heleads - nymphs of the fen
- epimeliads - protectors of sheep and their
flocks
- leimoniads - nymphs of the meadows or flowers
- limnades - nymphs of lakes, marshes, and swamps
- okeanids - nymphs of fountains and streams, daughters
of okeanos
- potameides - nymphs of the rivers
- nereids - nymphs of the ocean, daughters of
nereus
- pteleades - of elm trees
- hudriades - water nymphs in general
- some notable individual nymphs from mythology:
thetis, echo, daphne, maia
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