- 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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