It was a lot of hard work, I tell you, but using a device called "Google", I typed the word "Nymph" into the space and hit the "Search Button". About an instant later, the screen changed to a list of things called "links". At the top of the list, was a wikipedia page about Nymphs. Not knowing what to do, I clicked this link. An instant later a new webpage appeared before me. Terrified of so much text, I read only the bolded titles about Greek Folklore, and scrolled down to the bottom and found a painting of a naked woman.
I believe that is what a Nymph is.
KNOWLEDGE FOR YOU
Nymphs are personifications of the creative and fostering activities of nature, most often identified with the life-giving outflow of springs: as
Walter Burkert remarks,"The idea that rivers are gods and springs divine nymphs is deeply rooted not only in poetry but in belief and ritual; the worship of these deities is limited only by the fact that they are inseparably identified with a specific locality."
Due to the depiction of the mythological nymphs as females who mate with men or women at their own volition and are completely outside male control, the term is often used for women who are perceived as behaving similarly.
In Greek mythology, a nymph is a female spirit typically associated with a particular location or landform. Other nymphs, always in the shape of young nubile maidens, were part of the retinue of a god, such as Dionysus, Hermes, or Pan, or a goddess, generally Artemis. ...