naides

noun

plural of nais

1

plural naises

-sə̇z

or naides

ˈnāəˌdēz

: a river nymph : naiad

2

capitalized [New Latin, from Latin, naiad] : a large genus of small aquatic oligochaete worms that is the type of the family Naididae

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