Wood nymph is another term for a dryad in Ancient Greek mythology.
The term has also been applied to various animals:
- Woodnymphs (Thalurania, a hummingbird genus from tropical America)
- Cercyonis (North American wood-nymphs, a brush-footed butterfly genus)
- in particular the common wood-nymph (C. pegala)
- Ideopsis (Southeast Asian tree- and wood-nymphs, also known as glassy tigers, a brush-footed butterfly genus not closely related to Cercyonis)
- in particular Ideopsis juventa
Other
- The Wood Nymph, 1894 tone poem by Jean Sibelius
- The Wood Nymph (film), 1916 lost film by D. W. Griffith (as Granville Warwick)
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